But if things had gone differently, the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon. Read the story of the first spacewalk, and how the mission nearly didn't come back to Earth.

Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...

Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap ...

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 ...

On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. These programmes and clips tell the story of the Apollo Moon missions, how they got off the ground and why the missions ...

When NASA's Artemis 3 crewed mission lands on the lunar surface a few years from now, the first astronauts to walk on the moon since the Apollo age will be able to take advantage of something ...

In 1971, American astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours walking the surface of the Moon as part of the Apollo 14 program.

European astronauts trained for future moon missions on Wednesday in a lunar simulator in Germany. The European Space Agency ...

What's it like to walk on the moon? Join the Apollo astronauts on the surface in this series of stunning 360-degree panoramas, one each from the six successful Apollo moon landings. Shot by the ...

Some prior reasons for not visiting the moon in 50 years, were due to cost and public support, but now in the 21st Century, NASA says, a second landing on the moon is scheduled with Artimis III in ...

These days, we are used to having a number of robotic rovers (and briefly, a helicopter) driving and flying around the Moon ...