An engineer has been recognised with a blue plaque for his role in helping to put mankind on the Moon. Tom Bacon, a Cambridge ...
We're getting closer. In February, a US lunar lander touched down on the moon's surface for the first time since Apollo 17.
Although most people wouldn't see it for another year, 35 years ago today A Grand Day Out cemented a British institute in the ...
The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...
However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...
More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to disturb the lunar surface", said The Times's science reporter Kaya Burgess.