On July 20 1969, US space agency NASA’s Apollo 11 Eagle module landed on the Moon’s Tranquility Base. Hours later, at 9.56pm CT (2.56am BST), Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first person ...

Footage shot just weeks before the landing shows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin training in their cumbersome spacesuits. Film courtesy of the online film archive ...

Months of gruelling training exercises paid off for NASA on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The historic mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins safely ...

Rare photos capture astronauts in the Apollo program training in the rugged canyons, craters and lava fields of Arizona On 20 July 1969, the world paused as an estimated 600 million people watched ...

NASA has released a fascinating set of pictures detailing Apollo astronauts training for missions to the moon on the side of a Hawaiian volcano. The images, which were taken in the early 1970s, show ...

Earlier this summer, six prospective astronauts hiked through endless black and grey sediment, on ground devoid of vegetation. A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the Moon is actually ...