In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground.

Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the crash site in greater ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...

There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific ... and Charlie Duke did not long before their April 16, 1972 liftoff. The full book Apollo VII – XVII by Simon Phillipson ...