Apollo 8 Airborne Tracking

This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. 

Pictured from left to right, the Apollo 9 astronauts, James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart, pause in front of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle that would launch the Apollo...

NASA's LADEE mission came to an end as the spacecraft executed a planned de-orbit into the surface of the Moon at nearly three thousand, six hundred miles per hour.

Visualization of the location of all six Apollo landing sites on the Moon, along with the historical Moon phase. 

View of a lightning bolt during the launch of Apollo 12

Not everyone gets to become a part of history, but mathematician Billie Robertson is one of the lucky ones.

Dunned in his space suit, Command Module (CM) pilot Michael Collins does a final check of his communications system before the boarding of the Apollo 11 mission. 

After its soft landing, Surveyor 6 was the first spacecraft to be launched from the surface of the moon.

Total Lunar Eclipse, May 2021

Learn how the Moon has evolved over time.

Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.

With music by P!NK and the Ndlovu Youth Choir.

Gerald D. Griffin, foreground, stands near his console in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) during Apollo 15's third extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.

These three astronauts are the prime crew of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission.

Share this animated GIF to celebrate and promote International Observe the Moon Night!

The Apollo 7/Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. (EDT), Oct. 11, 1968.

This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon's horizon.

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has passed away at the age of 87.

A scanning electron microscope photograph of iron crystals which grow in a small vug or cavity in a recrystallized breccia (fragmented rock) from the Apollo 15 Hadley-Apennino lunar landing site.

Explore some of the Moon's most intriguing features through imagery captured from Earth and space. 

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA), on Aug. 2, 1971, at EVA Stati...

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras.

View the Moon's phase and libration leading up to the 2020 Halloween Blue Moon.

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, stands near a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) prior to a test flight at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, on ...

Handout about the scientific legacy of our first landing on the Moon during Apollo 11.