Marking time has long been a human obsession - from the first rudimentary cave markings to wall planners, desk diaries and computerized charts, calendars have always been with us. Now scientists at ...

The Apollo 11 handbook contains nearly 150 handwritten annotations by the astronauts and possible traces of moondust.The book also contains the first human writing on another world with coordinates ...

( Image: Apollo Photo Prints) 3 of 22 Solar Corona Image taken from the Command and Service Module during the Apollo 11 mission while on a near circular lunar equatorial orbit. 4 of 22 Jettisoned ...

Next week, NASA will celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of its most important missions - Apollo 11. The mission saw humans set foot on the moon for the first time, collecting invaluable samples of ...

It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he ...

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission which took man to the moon is fast approaching, and the story will be retold many times - but what are the secrets that people aren't really aware of? Sky ...