India, Sept. 25 -- India's space programme is preparing for its next big leap - from sending missions to the Moon to building ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts deliberately crashed the lunar module’s empty ascent stage into the Moon to create a controlled seismic signal. The impact was detected by the Passive Seismic ...

As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gets ready to send the Artemis II crew to the moon, Americans everywhere are feeling nostalgic—and for good reason. It's been over 50 years ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere. Ever. And the lunar lander — a ...

An artist’s impression of an Apollo-era lunar module (left) and moon landers being built by Blue Origin (center) and SpaceX (right). Graphic: NASA Office of Inspector General NASA is working to reduce ...

The Apollo Lunar Landing Mission Symposium, held from June 25 to 27, 1966, at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, was a pivotal event in the Apollo program. This symposium convened ...

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar landscapes at the moon's Taurus-Littrow valley, where Apollo 17 astronauts ...