NASA astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Thomas Mattingly landed on the moon 50 years ago today, and to mark the anniversary, iconic images from the penultimate lunar landing have been remastered.

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top of the vast Saturn V rocket and were propelled into orbit in just over 11 ...

Today is 53 years since NASA made history with the Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 16, 1969. The mission marked the first time that humans stepped foot on the surface of another world. Neil Armstrong ...

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 16’s landing on the moon, the fifth and penultimate group to do so. Ever since Neil Armstrong made his step onto the lunar surface three years earlier, every ...

July 20 marks the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the US space mission that saw humanity take its first ever steps on the Moon. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

Nasa is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing this week, which saw Commander Neil Armstrong become the first person to step onto the lunar surface. The mission saw three ...

Join the countdown to the final, dramatic 13-minute descent Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the Moon Four days earlier, on 16 July 1969 Armstrong, ...

The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap. Aldrin, 94, the last ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.