There have been billions of people that have walked the face of the Earth throughout history, but only 12 of have ever walked on the surface of the Moon. For the select few that have ever walked on ...

Gene Cernan, the last human to walk on the moon, died last week at age 82. The naval aviator joined NASA in 1963 and remained with the agency for over a decade, flying three times in space. He is one ...

Apollo 16 was notable not for the news it made but the news the crew received while on the lunar surface in 1972. During an April 21 moon walk, mission Commander John Young received a message from ...

Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were well on their way to a date with history, becoming the first men to set foot on another body in space. Events to mark the anniversary and ...

50 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were back on Earth, having taken a return trip to the Moon. Even now, that seems bonkers – the notion they bounded about up there, planted a flag, and ...

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, a Navy pilot and veteran of NASA’s pioneering Gemini program who was the second American to walk in space and then flew to the moon twice as an Apollo astronaut, died ...

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

Forty-five years ago, three brave astronauts launched into space with the goal of becoming the first to walk on the moon. The now-legendary crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins left ...

SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, July 19, 1969 (UPI)--- Apollo 11 dropped into orbit around the moon today and started scouting the landscape where man will take his first steps late Sunday or early Monday.

On April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 set down in the Descartes Highlands of the moon. While there, astronauts Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke became the ninth and 10th of only 12 ...

Today, people around the world will be inspired by HD images from Apollo 11 and man’s first walk on the moon, and those images, recorded half a century ago, look as good as they do with some help from ...

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