The quartet are essentially repeating the 1968 mission carried out by Apollo 8, which was the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Its crew took the famous "Earthrise" picture that showed ...

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

As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.

The US wanted to be first to stage a manned mission to the Moon. In 1962 Kennedy made a now ... "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Between them, the two men spent more ...

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last ... gaining altitude and speed by the instant. In Mission Control, Flight Director Gene Kranz listened carefully ...

But in 1965, when NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was in the midst of engineering and orchestrating missions to the moon, Mars ... The concept was first discovered in the 1800s, when scientists ...

If you were hoping to see the “mini moon,” you’ve probably been disappointed. But experts say the asteroid was an important ...

China is now reinforcing its future cosmic exploration by introducing its first Moon landing spacesuits to be worn by its ...

NASA first landed a human on the moon back in 1969, and last achieved the feat in December 1972. In the intervening years, there have been few other missions to Earth’s primary natural satellite.

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

National Moon Day commemorates the first time humanity landed on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. 51 years down ... “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” ...

California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize mining in space with the first private mission to land on another body outside of the Earth-moon system. The mission will see its ...