This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the Hadley Rille on the south-east edge of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. AMIE obtained this ...

An official NASA photo shows astronaut Alfred M. Worden, chosen to be the prime crew command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. The official NASA image presents astronaut David R.

Apollo mission planners selected an adventurous landing site for Apollo 15 located on a relatively small patch of lava plains, called “mare” on the moon. This site is nestled between the towering ...

On 20 July 2011 (coincidentally, the 42nd anniversary of the first steps humans took on another world) the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was commanded to roll to the east, allowing the Lunar ...

Their names are now part of exploration history – Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited by ...

It’s a sight we haven’t seen in 37 years—and additional evidence (as if thinking people really need it) that, yes, astronauts really did land on the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. Japan’s Kaguya orbiter ...

In July 1971, Apollo 15 took off from Earth as the ninth such crewed missions heading for the Moon. It landed there, in the Hadley Rille region, and became the first human expedition to another world ...

If you fancy owning a piece of space history you might be interested to learn that the joystick used to control the landing of the Apollo 15 spacecraft during its moon landing will soon be up for ...

NASA's deputy associate director, Werhner von Braun, examines the color television camera planned for inclusion in the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. The camera will be attached to the Lunar Roving ...