Some of the best pictures are of it sitting on the surface of the Moon ... since grade school when I found a cartoon of two astronauts on the Moon. I've parlayed my seven-year-old self's curiosity ...

It wasn’t until after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon that NASA starting thinking seriously about giving astronauts some sort of surface mobility ... when I found a cartoon of two astronauts ...

If you click it, you’ll see Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins narrating a short cartoon rendering ... the 13-minute descent to the surface of the moon. Collins stayed behind.

A gung-ho group of space enthusiasts has started the process of putting a vintage NASA spacecraft ... should fly within about 30 miles of the moon's surface in August.

When the six Apollo missions landed on the Moon from 1969 to 1972, the astronauts left behind instrument packages on the surface that included geology instruments.

To celebrate this special anniversary - and to mark the moment people across the Earth felt united in the wonder of space - we've selected some vintage ... onto the surface of the moon.