There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

Whoever got to the moon first would attain serious bragging rights. And it was in 1969 that the ground-breaking first walk on the moon took place, with Neil Armstrong the first to make a footprint ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon ...

He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 was not without its difficulties.

Apollo 14 After Apollo 13's near-disaster and aborted Moon landing, Apollo 14 (1971) saw America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard, as the commander with Ed Mitchell as lunar module pilot. Shepard ...