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 on ...

This season we've been counting down to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong made his famous 'one small step' and became the first person to walk on ...

Spacecraft that carried astronauts on the 'dress rehearsal' for the first moon landing was left in orbit around the sun, where it remains today You can save this article by registering for free here.

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Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, an experience that he said made him "belong to the universe," died on Monday at the age of 82, the U.S. space agency said. Cernan, who was also ...

When NASA’s Artemis 1 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California Sunday, it brought to an end a supremely successful mission that tested an entirely new rocket — the space launch ...