However, the lander continued to operate for more than ... for a phenomenon known as lunar horizon glow, first described by Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan. “Lunar dust particles can become ...

The historic sojourn came to an end Sunday evening when the lander powered down after beaming its final data to NASA. Decades after the Apollo era, robotic lunar landings remain a monumental ...

Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its mission.

After years of setbacks, sacrifice, and scientific innovation, Apollo 11 made history. This is the story of how Armstrong, ...

Blue Ghost landed at lunar sunrise so that the solar ... Eugene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17 who in 1972 was the last man to walk on the moon, sketched observations of a glow along the ...

That vehicle, however, landed in a sideways orientation that ... During the phenomenon, which previously had been witnessed by Apollo astronauts, moon dust particles appear to levitate around ...

Huygens Titan lander and NASA's Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle," which delivered astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface in 1969. Space artifacts elsewhere in the museum ...