Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is perfectly centered, his silhouette standing out against the monochrome lunar landscape. The ...

While the moon may seem like an unusual choice for the list, it is home to numerous historic sites from the age of space exploration, including Tranquility Base—the Apollo 11 mission landing site.

One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

The Apollo 8 mission was a monumental chapter in the space race. The NASA astronauts were the first to orbit the moon and return to earth. The mission was a historic milestone in man’s foray into the ...

From rummaging through the back of the sofa to asking for extra change at your local shop, County Durham residents might strike gold – or at least silver – if they find this rare undated 20p coin.

On this date, Jan. 4, 1970, NASA officially canceled the Apollo 20 mission and transferred the Saturn V rocket that would have sent astronauts to the moon to the Skylab mission. NASA, in a budget ...

On January 4, 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon.

At a cost of about US$800 million, or $4.9 billion today, Project Azorian was more expensive than a manned Apollo Moon mission. In many senses it was a failure, but it did show what US ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Irish state documents from April 1984 show that officials were unsure where to display a piece of moon rock gifted by the United States to Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission of 1969. The moon rock ...