An engineer has been recognised with a blue plaque for his role in helping to put mankind on the Moon. Tom Bacon, a Cambridge ...

ARCHIVE AUDIO: It’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ... “giant leap for mankind” to become the first person to walk on the Moon. Aged 21, Armstrong was a fighter pilot ...

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.

Between 1969 and 1972, the US Apollo program saw 12 Americans -- all white men -- walk on the Moon. NASA previously announced that the Artemis program would see the first woman and the first ...

Yet, very few are aware of Thomas Bacon, whose invention of the first working hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell helped send Apollo 11 to the moon. Tom's pioneering work continues to be a source of ...

The first woman on the moon will be wearing a Prada space suit, as part of NASA's first human mission to the lunar South Pole. The suit aims to provide maximum comfort to the astronauts ...