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Coronavirus outbreak deals blow to NASA's return-to-moon plan by 2024

The space agency chief ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the respiratory illness.

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

The VIPER robot will drive for miles (km) on the dusty lunar surface to get a closer look at underground pockets of "hundreds of millions of tons of water ice"

How geological maps made the Apollo moon landings worthwhile

The scientific value of landing on the moon would have been diminished without studies to establish the context of the landing sites

Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything, but it could hasten our end

This faith in technology has given us a false sense of security

50 yrs of Apollo 11: How geological maps made the moon landings worthwhile

Geological mapping continues today, even on bodies where there is no prospect of human visitors in the forseeable future

Apollo 11 turns 50: Moon exploration, interesting facts & Nasa's to-do list

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

Would your phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon like Apollo did?

The Apollo computer was state-of-the-art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that are available today?

Would your phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon like Apollo did?

The Apollo computer was state-of-the-art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that are available today?

50 yrs of moon landing: When the world paused to watch Armstrong's moonwalk

Officially more than 500 million people gathered around their sets to watch him leap from the ladder of Apollo 11's Eagle landing craft and onto the surface of the Sea of Tranquility

NASA selects 8 research teams to study Mars, Moon through robots, humans

The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will support the new teams for five years at a combined total of about $10.5 million per year

Nasa plans to send equipment to Moon from 2020 for a crewed mission in 2024

The US space agency has chosen American firms Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Orbit Beyond to send instruments and other scientific equipment to the Moon as part of the Artemis program

50th anniversary of Apollo 11: How we came to know a lot about the Moon

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

Google doodle celebrates 50th anniversary of Nasa's Apollo 11 Moon mission

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

50 years of Apollo mission: Was Moon landing fake? Here are the facts

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

Exposing the moon's surface: Equipment that changed space photography

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

Moonwalk to MTV: How photos by Apollo 11 astronauts influenced pop culture

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

'One small step for a man': Did we mishear Armstrong's first words on Moon?

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'

For $15 you can take tour of the unique artifacts from Apollo 11 mission

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

Explore first moon landing in your living room with Google's 3D re-creation

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

50 yrs of Moon landing: Let's not forget, or forsake, the lessons of past

The first step is to protect the sites which chronicle our history on the Moon