Whoever got to the moon first would attain serious bragging rights. And it was in 1969 that the ground-breaking first walk on the moon took place, with Neil Armstrong the first to make a footprint ...

On July 20, 1969, awestruck viewers around the world watched on television as Ohioan Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and spent ...

A man on the moon was, for much of human existence, a metaphor for an impossible achievement. Yet the impossible became a reality on July 20, 1969, when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...

A British astronaut could walk on the Moon for the first time by 2025, Nasa officials have told the UK Government. The space agency told Michelle Donelan, the Science Secretary, it was ...

This time, when Artemis returns with a crew, a woman will walk on the moon, as will a person of colour. They might be the same person. On 5 October 2022 Nicole Aunapu Mann became the first Native ...

There have been 12 astronauts to walk on the moon, according to NASA. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first to do so in 1969 as part of the Apollo human spaceflight program ...

More than 50 years after astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission, the U.S. space agency is plotting another lunar visit — only this ...

As and when that historical landing is achieved, they will become the first to walk on the moon’s surface since Gene Cernan in December, 1972. A total of 12 astronauts have landed on the moon ...