#OnThisDay in 1969, Apollo 11's lunar module, Eagle, landed on the moon, forever imprinting its mark on human history. A giant leap for mankind! 🚀🌕 #Apollo11 #MoonLanding #SpaceExploration #HumanAchievement

Edited Apollo 15 image of a large crater on the Moon.

A photo, taken by the Apollo 11 crew on their way home from the moon, showed both the first and last lunar landing sites. The first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, occurred at the southwestern part of the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission, touched down in the Taurus-Littrow area, a combination mountainous highland and lowlands valley region. The Apollo 17 astronauts took advantage of the lunar roving vehicle developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…

Relive the painstaking mission that led to the first human footprints on the Earth’s natural satellite

A look back at what the crews of the Apollo missions photographed on the surface of the moon.

Steer your way to the surface or call blastoff on a Saturn V rocket.

Experts at Nasa in Washington DC have created a video based on data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to show the phases of the moon for 2016.