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.

In May 1968, Bellcomm planners Noel Hinners, Farouk El-Baz, and A. Goetz described a unique post-Apollo mission to the Apennine Front-Hadley Rille region of the moon. The mission would see a melding ...

(Phys.org) —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 ...

In northern Arizona, a spectacular region of exposed, layered rocks over 6,000 feet thick was carved by the Colorado River. Aptly called the Grand Canyon, it represents over a billion years of Earth’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...