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International Moon Day 2023: It is celebrated on July 20 annually all over the globe.  The day serves as a public outreach initiative to celebrate the Apollo 11 mission.

Categories:Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration, The Moon | tags:Apollo, NASA, News, The Moon

Take a look back at that fateful Moon mission on its 54th Anniversary.

There’s nothing Robert wouldn’t do for his family. He never took himself too seriously and his sense of humor made everyone laugh.

Almost 60 years ago, NASA put chronographs built by three top watchmakers through a series of tests to check how they coped with extreme variations of temperature and pressure. Omega’s Speedmaster ‘Moonwatch’ won the contest.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — On July 16, 1969, the beginning of the historic mission that culminated in man walking on the moon for the first time began with the launch of Apollo 11 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Commander Neil Armstrong, who was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot […]

Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years. His account of those travels, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic. The wealth of new geographic information recorded by Polo was widely used by European navigators.

Given the rich history of lunar expeditions, particularly the Apollo programme, which provided groundbreaking technologies for human landings, the ambitious goal of returning humans to the Moon appears to be within reach. The Apollo-11 mission marked a historic milestone in 1969 and the Apollo 17 concluded the series as the final human lunar mission in 1972. While the focus in recent years has been on robotic missions for scientific experiments, the excitement of landing and working on Moon adds...

Ron Howard's Oscar-winning film about the harrowing Apollo 13 mission achieved lift-off more than 25 years ago and still manages to bring the thrills