Forty years on not a speck of dust has been disturbed since the first man put his footprint on the moon. And astronaut Neil Armstrong's bootmark will still be visible in 10 million years' time on the ...

Michael Collins, who flew the spacecraft Columbia in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon 1969, has died at the age of 90. The astronaut's family released a statement ...

The Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon has died age 90. Michael Collins was called the "forgotten astronaut" because he piloted the ...

A fascinating letter by Neil Armstrong revealing how he would look out for aliens when landing on the moon has come to light 56 years on. Three months before the Apollo 11 mission, the astronaut was ...

It's nearly 50 years since the US became the first country to land men on the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world history, but what exactly happened and why does it matter?

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Japanese company’s bid to achieve history’s first commercial landing on the Moon was declared a failure on ...

Plenty of people can name the first human to walk on the moon, but how many can name the last? Eugene Cernan stepped off the lunar surface at 17.54EST on 14 December 1972 and climbed the ladder to ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base, fulfilling President John F Kennedy’s goal of landing man on the Moon by the end of the Sixties. Armstrong became an ...

The command and service module Columbia and the lunar module Eagle separated from the rocket and continued to the moon, piloted by Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins. Three days later, ...

The Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon has died age 90. Michael Collins was called the "forgotten astronaut" because he piloted the ...