Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

The 12 NASA astronauts part of the Apollo program remain the only humans to reach the lunar surface.

Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to put people on ...

This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. (NASA Johnson video) July 1969. It ...

New analysis of lunar soil samples returned to Earth more than 50 years ago is providing critical insights into the relationship between space environment and the Moon's surface, according to ...

National Moon Day is observed every July 20 to honor the Apollo 11 mission and the first human moon landing in 1969. This ...

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A broken engine switch threatened to leave the first Moon walkers trapped on the lunar surface until an ordinary pen became ...

The draft remains filed away in the National Archives as an eerie reminder of what could have been.

China is targeting a moon landing by 2029, just months after NASA's own planned moon base mission.