Neil Armstrong

Brad Pitt made the first move with James Gray. In 1995, he saw Gray’s debut “Little Odessa” and decided to call up the young filmmaker behind the grim Brooklyn crime drama. They’ve been talking ever since — about films, life and working together. But it would take almost 25 years for the stars to finally align, fittingly, for an ambitious,...

An Ohio hospital paid the estate of astronaut Neil Armstrong $6 million in a confidential agreement to settle allegations that post-surgical complications led to Armstrong’s 2012 death, according to court documents and a report in the New York Times. The 2014 settlement went to 10 family members, including Armstrong’s two sons, sister, brother and six grandchildren, according to documents filed...

Chris Kraft, the founder of NASA’s mission control, died Monday, just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. He was 95. Kraft made key decisions on launches as the U.S. was learning how to put a man into space. Astronaut Neil Armstrong once called him “the man who was the ‘Control’ in Mission Control.” The...

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the National Air and Space Museum is recreating the historic moment with a life-sized projection of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the National Air and Space Museum is recreating the historic moment with a life-sized projection of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument.

Jim Lovell flew four times in space, including two trips to the Moon. He was the backup commander of Apollo 11, and was in Mission Control when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first lunar landing.

The rocket launch that landed Neil Armstrong on the moon will be recreated in projections on the Washington Monument. "Apollo 50: Go For the Moon" airs on Friday and Saturday, but News4’s Megan McGrath got a sneak peek. Here’s more information about when and where you can see it for yourself.

50 years ago today Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin blasted off on a mission that would change history forever.

Despite the heat, a big crowd came out to watch the projection of the rocket on the Washington Monument. News4’s Shomari Stone reports from the the National Mall.

Neil Armstrong’s original space suit may be out-of-this-world, but the job of sewing it fell into the hands of ordinary seamstresses. News4’s Cory Smith has the story.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Collins had the spotlight to himself this time — Armstrong has been gone for seven years and Aldrin canceled. Collins said he wished his two moonwalking colleagues could have shared the moment at Kennedy...

What did Neil Armstrong really say when he took his first step on the moon? Millions on Earth who listened to him on TV or radio heard this : “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But after returning from space, Armstrong said that wasn’t what he had planned to say. He said there was a...

The National Gallery of Art is displaying a new exhibit, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs,” in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

NASA prepping to open moon rock samples sealed since the Apollo missions.

The Air and Space Museum has a special exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of mankind first setting foot on the moon. News4’s Aimee Cho reports you can see Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit in the exhibit.

A new NASA program aims to put the first woman on the moon by 2024, NBC News reported. The Artemis program, unveiled last month, takes its name from the twin sister of Apollo, the namesake of NASA’s original moon landing project. The nation is coming up on the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin making the first moon...

Free tickets for “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, will be available for veterans and active-duty military personnel at more than 15 theaters in the D.C. metro area on Thursday.

Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing two of his children, alleging misuse of his credit cards, transferring money from an account and slandering him by saying he has dementia.

A Tennessee woman is suing NASA to maintain possession of what she says is a vial of moon dust given to her by astronaut Neil Armstrong when she was 10 years old, NBC News reported. Laura Cicco in her lawsuit says the vial was given to her in the 1970s by Armstrong, who she claims was a friend of her...