Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing at the Apollo 11 launch site. Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin accompanied Pence to Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday and showed him the pad where he began that momentous journey 50 years ago. Aldrin later got a standing ovation during a speech by Pence.

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Fifty years after Apollo 11's moonwalkers took one giant leap for humanity, luminaries including President Donald Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ? the world's richest individual ? paid tribute to the achievement and looked forward to the future of spaceflight. Today's observances were about more than memories: There were also fresh questions about where that future might lead ? and a Russian rocket launch that resonated with references to the U.S.-Soviet space race of the 1960s. The marquee observance on today's anniversary of the landing on July 20, 1969, came at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where Vice President Mike? Read More

Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, NASA's Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency set off on a six-hour journey to the orbiting science lab from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1628 GMT.

A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity's first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Aldrin showed Vice President Mike Pence the launch pad where he flew to the moon in 1969. "We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most historic event in my lifetime, maybe in anybody's lifetime, the landing on the moon," said 10K runner Robert Rocco, 54, of Centerville, Ohio.

A food manufacturer that makes sandwiches and salads sold at one of the country?s biggest biggest retailers is recalling more than 1,000 cases amid fears of potential listeria contamination.Elevation Foods, which produces Archer Farms-branded sandwiches and salads, said it was voluntarily recalling a series sold at Target, and Fresh Market. Target is the eighth largest retailer in the US.The products include Freskëtbrand egg salad, tuna salad, and Thai lobster salad, along with Archer Farms devilled egg sandwiches that were produced on June 18 2019.?Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,? the company said in a statement issued by the federal food and drug administration. (FDA)?Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea.?Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.?It added: ?We believe fewer than 1,087 cases of product have been directly shipped to retailer warehouses throughout the United States.?No illnesses have been reported to date.?It said the products were produced at Elevation Foods? facility in Knoxville, Tennessee.It added: ?Elevation Foods is working with distributors and retailers to quarantine and recover any impacted product remaining on store shelves.?