There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a parabolic flight. In this exclusive mini-documentary, Space.com reporter ...

For many years, I’ve been a devotee of full-moon walks. We’ve walked by balmy summer moons in t-shirts with katydids singing and lightning bugs flashing in a multi-sensory display. We’ve walked under ...

We’ll ask that question a different way: Have you ever heard of Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt? Those are the astronauts that took the moonwalk 52 years ago to little fanfare on Apollo 17. It was ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected ...

It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he ...

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” has echoed throughout history as the first words spoken by Apollo ...