There was a retro-rocket pack — designed to slow Glenn ... the extremely quick thinking of a first-time astronaut named Neil Armstrong, Gemini 8’s crew would have been killed.

The only rocket with the power to do it was the Saturn ... Dermot O’Leary learns how American Neil Armstrong took a “giant leap for mankind” to become the first person to walk on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong and his crew mates, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, blasted off on their mission to land on the Moon. Their Saturn V rocket was the most powerful machine ever built. It was 110 ...

Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket on May 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, front, waves as the crew heads to the van that will take them to the rocket for launch at the ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative ... McClelland collection, an archive of astronaut autographs, cscale rocket models and flown memorabilia from the estate of a NASA engineer who died in 2021.