Far above the Earth, NASA's Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon

America's most daring, extraordinary feat, landing astronauts on the moon, remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

OTD In Space – July 16: Apollo 11 Launches to the Moon

On July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land ...
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One Small Step Back in Time: Relive the Wonder of Apollo 11

Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to put people on ...
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Apollo 11 launch anniversary: Celebrating NASA’s historic mission that sent humanity to the moon

July 16 this year marks the 57th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which saw two men walk on the Moon.

Apollo boilerplate to be centrepiece of Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibition

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...
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Supercon 2023: Restoring The Apollo Guidance Computer

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...

An astronaut hid seeds in his luggage bound for the Moon: decades later they are still growing across the country

In 1971 Stuart Roosa — the command module pilot of Apollo 14 — carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon.