A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed ... The ...

The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland's National ...

NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on December 24, 1968.

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

There are other pieces of the moon, however, that fell to Earth as meteorites ... attention turned to carefully slicing off a strip of the Apollo 11 flown tape to be inlayed into the ring.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Apollo 11 lunar samples, themselves. The four moon pebbles, which were embedded in a single lucite ball and mounted to a wooden podium together with ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology played a vital role in the moon landing and beyond, as did a Bay State-based ...

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was comprised of two vehicles ... Both helped regulate the command module's temperature on the trip from Earth to the moon and back. When Columbia returned home, the ...