A group of seniors from the Manoir Westmount residence were taken for an out-of-this-world trip down memory lane by federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau.

Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is encouraging kids to "reach for the stars" when it comes to careers in the sciences.

Some Edmontonians celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing at a perhaps obvious place: the science centre.

The rocks collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the moon 50 years ago were chosen by a future UBC president, who brought them home to his family.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, cars were backed up for miles outside the visitor complex at opening time. In Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio, nearly 2,000 runners competed in "Run to the Moon" races.

The one-off performance comes as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA's iconic Apollo 11 launch.

The Lego SLS rocket at the science centre is one of the tallest Lego rockets ever displayed in Canada.

At NASA's invitation, astronaut Michael Collins marked the precise moment the Saturn V rocket blasted off.

India aborted the launch on Monday of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon less than an hour before liftoff.

Neil Armstrong said there was a lost word in his famous one-liner from the moon: "That's one small step for 'a' man." It's just that people just didn't hear it."