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Last week, two teams of UC Berkeley researchers had the opportunity to test their experiments — and stomachs — aboard ZERO-G’s G-Force One, an aircraft that flies in a series of parabolic arcs to mimic the zero gravity conditions of space flight.Duri

Researchers from the University of Florida grew the plants in soil collected by NASA during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions.

NASA and partners are developing backpack-sized technology for future Moon explorers that will allow them to map and navigate the lunar surface in the darkness of the high polar regions to within a centimeter without GPS.

An examination of the history of spacecraft, from the Vostok and Mercury programs to today and the near future.

The mission launched two years after NASA declared there would be no new lunar landing missions after Apollo 17 - so the crew launched knowing time was limited.

The fifth crew to land on the Moon took lunar geology to new heights.

Stunning images show the historic Apollo 16 mission 50 years after its launch to the moon. 

They are the only verified moon samples to be sold into private hands and the journey they took to the auction house was almost as epic as the voyage Armstrong made to retrieve them.

Auction house Bonhams is expecting around $1 million

“I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” -Michael Collins Less than a decade after the first human was launched into space, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins journeyed from the Earth to the Moon. For the first time, human beings descended down to the lunar surface, opened the hatch, and walked outside. Humanity had departed Earth and set foot onto another world.