After spending about 33 hours on the surface, Shepard and Mitchell jumped back into the landing module and lifted off to rendezvous with Roosa in orbit. Alan Shepard on the Moon. Image: NASA ...

Only 12 people have walked on the Moon — but in a new era of commercial space exploration, a nonprofit dedicated to safeguarding treasured sites is warning about threats to historic Moon landing ...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands beside an American flag placed on the moon during Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. He is photographed by the mission's commander, Neil A. Armstrong, 1969. Photo: Getty ...

With no shielding atmosphere, the Moon ... of the landing site. Smaller, centimetre-sized rock fragments, particularly to the west, probably stem from a nearby 10-metre-wide crater. Through ...

The lunar surface is the home of many artifacts from both robotic and human exploration of the moon, such as the Apollo 11 lunar landing site within the Sea of Tranquility, home of the first off ...

In particular, some researchers are worried about Tranquillity Base, the Apollo 11 landing site where the astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon’s surface. Protections for cultural ...

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as a host of private missions, many funded through ... from the Moon’s surface,” the fund warns on its landing page for the Moon. Other sites on ...

World Monuments Fund wants to protect heritage and artefacts left by American and Soviet space missions The site of the first Moon landing has been added to a list of endangered heritage sites ...

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s surface, and the asymmetrical distribution ... without dealing with a great ...

The experts have stated that the Tranquility Base, the landing site ... on the Moon. Additionally, NASA has long been planning to put humans back on Moon, later this decade, through its highly ...