Saturday marked the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing — a landmark moment in manned space flight. In September 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued a bold challenge to land a man on the ...

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Early this week, Facebook provided me with a sweet piece of serendipity when it served up a picture of the late Gene Cernan. I had taken and posted the picture in 2014, when Cernan, the last man on ...

Behind the image of calm heroism, Neil Armstrong carried a burden few knew. Years before walking on the Moon, he lost his two-year-old daughter Karen to a brain tumor — a tragedy that changed his life ...