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Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
PBS and BBC bring viewers through Apollo 11's major milestones in the new film "8 Days: To the Moon and Back," airing on July 17, 2019.
NASA has drawn up plans to protect the historic Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landing sites on the moon. Such plans are deemed necessary now that many spaceflight groups aim to return to the moon ...
World Monuments Fund adds Moon, Apollo 11 sites to 2025 heritage preservation watch list.© (photo credit: Ralf Liebhold. Via Shutterstock) ...
How to find the landing site of Apollo 17 20.19080°N, 30.77168° E Finding the sight of the “last man on the moon” is, I think, just as important as finding the first. After all, Apollo’s ...
All LRO Images from NASA. Additional images and info from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17).
July 20th is Moon Day, Space Exploration Day and the anniversary of the first Apollo 11 moonwalk. Here’s a look at the Apollo ...
In this image, Apollo 11 backup crew members Fred Haise (left) and Jim Lovell prepare to enter the Lunar Module for an altitude test.
If all goes to plan, two NASA astronauts, one female and one male, will descend to the lunar surface in 2024 in the third flight of the Artemis program. Here's how it will play out.
At the 320-foot level, the hatch of the Command Module is opened and Fred Haise, the Apollo 11 backup lunar-module pilot, prepares to go aboard to make some preliminary checks. 5:52 a.m.
Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center 50 years ago this morning, the start of an eight-day, 953,000-mile journey which would take the first humans to the surface of the moon and return them ...