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  • Neil Armstrong’s legacy transcends nationality

    When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter-million miles away.


  • This July 20, 1969, photo from NASA shows Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. (AP Photo/NASA, Buzz Aldrin)

    Armstrong's small step a giant leap for humanity

    When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles away


  • Armstrong's small step a giant leap for humanity

    When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter-million miles away.


  • Armstrong's small step a giant leap for humanity

    When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles away


  • NASA to athletic Mars rover: 'Stick the landing'

    It's NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet _ and it begins with the red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built. Also the most athletic.


  • NASA to athletic Mars rover: 'Stick the landing'

    It's NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet — and it begins with the red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built. Also the most athletic.


  • NASA to athletic Mars rover: 'Stick the landing'

    It's NASA's most ambitious and expensive Mars mission yet _ and it begins with the red planet arrival late Sunday of the smartest interplanetary rover ever built. Also the most athletic.


  • This undated artist rendering provided by Space Exploration Technologies (Space X), shows Space Exploration Technology's new rocket Falcon Heavy. On Tuesday, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space X unveiled plans to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. (AP Photo/Space Exploration Technologies)

    Company planning biggest rocket since man on moon

    A high-tech entrepreneur unveiled plans Tuesday to launch the world's most powerful rocket since man went to the moon.


  • Astronaut Mark Kelly prepares to discuss his decision to command the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor during a news conference at Johnson Space Center  on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 in Houston. Kelly's wife, Representative Gabrielle Giffords is recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head in a Houston hospital.  AP Photo / Michael Stravato)

    Giffords' astronaut husband decides to fly shuttle

    The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will head to space in April, a decision announced almost one month to the day that his wife was shot in the head.


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