astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the lunar surface. Just a few years later, as the Apollo program came to an end, the first whispers of what became known as the “moon ...

By 1959, Luna 2 crash-landed on the moon — the first man-made object on the lunar surface — and by October of that year a third probe circled around and photographed the far side of the moon.

Everyone knows the name of the first man on the moon, but what about the last? Eugene Cernan left the final bootprint that may ever appear on the surface of our dusty satellite. Yet Cernan has ...