While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for ...

On July 20, 1969, the world watched, and was transfixed, as American astronaut Neil Armstrong — rendered on television as a ghostly black-and-white figure — descended from the Lunar Module onto the ...

NASA has awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company a $3.4 billion contract to build landing modules that astronauts will use to return to the surface of the moon. The contract, announced Friday, ...

The Apollo Moon landings are among the most dissected events in history, yet some of their strangest details still hide in the fine print. I have pulled together 10 insane Apollo Moon landing facts ...

Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history ...

Rediscover the famous words exchanged between astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins during the first ...

"We did it. We actually put people on the surface of the moon." Those were the words from former Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell, who was just one of millions of people around the globe who watched in awe ...

China recently conducted a test of a lunar lander, marking a turning point in the country’s space ambitions. The experiment is a central part of efforts to land astronauts on the moon by the end of ...