Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

Sarah Silverman is a New Hampshire native through and through. She was born in Bedford and raised in Manchester. Her first stand-up comedy appearance was in Boston at the age of 17. She loves Ice ...

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has ...

"I weighed 363 pounds with all my equipment, but up on the Moon, just 60 pounds — so you could really spring up!” ...

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.