A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

Aldrin Jr. walking on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (ML) \u0022Eagle\u0022 and astronaut Neil Armstrong, during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). NASA no ...

What were the mascons, those mysterious subsurface objects, that perturbed the orbits of lunar satellites? Now, as NASA celebrates Apollo 11 with a series of events and parties in Houston and Cape ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

Though NASA expected their complicated ... spacecraft came out of it." Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele ...

Buzz' on the Moon: NASA astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the US flag during an Apollo 11 EVA on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-1 captures Earth: NASA Moon Minerology ...