high-resolution images and topographic data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, which had been circling the Moon since 2009. In early 2012, using NASA’s original data on Apollo 8’s ...

Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original imagery from the Apollo programme has been digitally overhauled by Andy Saunders for his new book, Apollo Remastered, showing NASA ...

Nasa’s Joel Kearns said that Blue Ghost’s sunset series represents the first high-resolution images of a sunset from the moon ... was first proposed by Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

taking photos until the very last minute. The Ranger missions were followed in 1966 by the first of five Lunar Orbiters, whose job was to map the moon’s surface at high resolution, provide a ...