The last time humans set foot on the Moon was 19 December 1972, during the Apollo 17 mission. "The Apollo missions were hugely successful," explained Dr Barber. "But they were 'touch and go ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them of immense value as both scientific and documentary records. Yet 30 years after the event most of them speak only ...

The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

It also marks the second time a U.S. spacecraft had landed on the moon since 1972, with the touch down of the manned Apollo 17 mission. The first in both those categories came from the company ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...