Apollo 11 took off for the moon this week in 1969. To prepare the astronauts, Nasa put them through gruelling, relentless simulations – and BBC Tomorrow's World paid a visit.

In 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped pictures of the historic Apollo 11 landing site. That mission's safe landing in 1969 was made possible, in part, by the Lunar Orbiter program.

NASA's unpiloted Ranger 7 spacecraft, which landed on the moon on July 31, 1964, set down about 130 nautical miles (240 km) from the targeted Apollo 13 landing site, and 140 nautical miles (260 km ...

Instead, the photo, which became known as "Earthrise," was taken more than six months earlier on Dec. 24, 1968, by astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8, the first crewed spacecraft to ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the ...

This coming weekend, Orion will shatter NASA’s distance record for a spacecraft designed for astronauts — nearly 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) from Earth, set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

News Orion capsule loops moon, sends photos and calls home to NASA Published: Nov. 21, 2022, 12:14 p.m. 5 1/5 Artemis images from space ...

And below is a shot of Apollo 9 commander James McDivitt performing the first docking (or joining) of two crewed spacecraft. Saunders writes that this is the only photo of an Apollo astronaut in ...

Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on July 16, 1969, on an unprecedented nine-day mission to land on and explore the lunar surface. It marked humanity’s first opportunity to study ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member John Glenn set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7 ...

Apollo 11 video from outside of the Lunar Module spacecraft, for instance, has been upscaled from 12fps to 24ps, which is a standardised framerate used across cinema and TV today.

The Apollo astronauts took some of the most famous photos of the 20 th century, but to Andy Saunders, they’re not quite good enough. It isn’t the content that bothers him, nor ...