When is Apollo 50th Anniversary

NASA's Project Artemis aims to take more humans, including the first woman ever to the moon

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon

Conspiracy theories that claimed that the moon landing was faked and that it was all a Hollywood-like cinematic production shot on Earth have been doing the rounds for decades

The equatorial diameter of the Moon is about 3,476km, while the polar diameter is 3,472km

The moon is often envisaged as a female entity, which inspired poems on the theme of her gaze as she looks down on Earth benignly

Here's a brief timeline of the landmark moments of lunar exploration in modern times

Photographs of the first moon landing were nothing short of artistic masterpieces that redefined imagery with the picture of a footprint

People collected and shared prints of the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk, which also became the basis for artist Andy Warhol's colored prints 'Moonwalk' and for MTV's logo in 1981

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts return to Earth, is largely unknown

Armstrong insisted that he actually said, 'That's one small step for a man.' In fact, in the official transcript, Nasa transcribes the quote as 'that's one small step for (a) man'

Moonshot is necessary not because more flags need to be planted and more footsteps left behind on a distant world, but because of the need to inspire present and future generations

A jacket Armstrong wore during the Apollo 11 mission and a moon rock are among the many artifacts

President John F. Kennedy announced that a national goal for the decade was to send a man to the Moon and back safely

Women have been historically excluded from the space program

For centuries, the dream of human travel into the cosmos has fired imaginations

Users would get to explore 20 new stories about lesser-known aspects of the mission and the people who contributed to it

There is a lot of documentation about what's been left on the Moon - but it's amazing how much we don't know

As a NASA airborne astronomy ambassador and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Manfred Olson Planetarium

Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings

Moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake - a film expert explains why