It was one giant leap for mankind, but 55 years on NASA has arguably been unable to better its remarkable feat of putting people on the moon. The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American ...

That's one small step for a man. One very expensive leap for the United States. Okay, sure, some would argue focusing on the total cost of the Apollo program defeats the purpose. Stepping onto the ...

Apollo lunar mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon. Michael Collins stays in lunar orbit. Apollo lunar mission. An in-flight explosion thwarts landing, ...

NASA landed on the Moon in 1969, just eight years after President John F Kennedy instructed America to beat the Soviet Union to the Moon. NASA’s Apollo 11 mission was spearheaded by astronauts Neil ...

Walter Cunningham became the eighth Apollo astronaut to die in the last five years when he passed away earlier this month aged 90. The last surviving member of the first NASA mission to broadcast live ...

On this day 50 years ago, humanity last stepped foot on the Moon. Neil Armstrong famously took the first human steps on the Moon in 1969. Following his Apollo 11 mission, five more crewed space ...

Astronaut Mike Massimino was six years old when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the Moon in 1969. "That's what inspired me to go into space," Massimino says. "I remember ...

Last week’s Nasa launch is the first in a flurry of successors to the Apollo programme, reopening the debate on the value of sending humans into space In a few weeks, Nasa will celebrate a remarkable ...

Moon rock collected on the last Apollo mission is revealing more about one of the Moon’s most unusual structures. An unusually bright area of the Moon known as the Light Mantle is the result of an ...

MISSIONS to outer space don’t just offer the world more rockets – but the everyday household items of the future, too. Nasa’s Apollo programme was integral to the invention of so many items you can ...