Although the US’ Moon landings were mostly made famous by the fact that it featured real-life human beings bunny hopping across the lunar surface, they weren’t there just for a refreshing stroll over ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...

Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle lunar lander touchdown site as seen in July 1969. Apollo 12 lunar module pilot Alan Bean steps down to moon's surface during his 1969 flight. After ...

The Cold War propelled lunar exploration, but humans last stepped foot on the moon in 1972. Now, a new moon race is on, with new players.

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

The concept of extraterrestrial farming was widely popularized in Andy Weir’s book The Martian, in which a marooned astronaut grows potatoes in Martian soil, using human waste as a fertilizer—but Weir ...

The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two ...

Illustrations -- Author's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Apollo : an extraordinary adventure -- The meaning of Apollo -- Dreaming of the Moon -- The Apollo spaceship -- Which way? -- ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...