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Fifty years ago, two men walked on the Moon, and science fiction became reality. The writer Norman Mailer captured that moment in an extraordinary account.

Understanding how thermal stress affected the LEM could inform decisions as NASA works toward Artemis Program landings on the Moon.

Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements.

When a lander's engines fire to slow descent, they generate exhaust plumes capable of creating craters, destabilising the landing area, and propelling regolith particles at high speeds.

The LEM throttled back as it approached the surface, to make landing as smooth as possible. Less thrust means less crater. %shareLinks-quote="Why didn't the moon landing create an impact crater?

As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing approaches, we look at one of humankind’s most audacious efforts, and whether a 21st century moonshot is worth aiming for.

The landing attempt came two years after ispace's first lander malfunctioned during the final stages of its descent to the moon, making a similar hard landing.

When officials arrived at the scene, they found that thieves had stolen only one object: a five-inch tall solid-gold replica of the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM that landed on the moon, reports ...

A SpaceX Starship variant will return humans to the moon in 2025 for the first time since the Apollo era, despite protests from rival Blue Origin.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will build a moonquake detector for astronauts to deploy on the moon in 2026 during the Artemis III mission, which will return astronauts ...