Only 12 astronauts have walked on the moon. Discover who they are, which Apollo missions took them there, and when humans ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, reveal their secrets.

While we may remember the "one small step" more than anything else, the first Lunar Rover has its own interesting story ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

MOON SOUNDS NASA’s Apollo missions installed four solar-powered seismometers on the moon. Moonquakes recorded during those missions have now been linked to faults scattered across the lunar surface.

The lunar surface is pitted with craters made by crashed spacecraft. Some, like early Soviet probes, were designed to make impact with the moon, while others, like the Apollo lunar modules, were ...

Planning a return to the moon. Fifty years after Apollo 11's voyage into history, NASA is preparing to return astronauts to the surface of the moon by the end of 2024, using a huge new rocket ...

Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 all carried an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP in NASA-speak). This sophisticated suite of instruments took about two hours to set up, which is why ...

Apollo 11, up to a point, will retrace the moon-voyaging route of Apollo 8 and 10: the Saturn V launch into earth orbit, scheduled for July 16; re-ignition of the Saturn V’s top stage, to propel ...