A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire ...

wp:paragraph --> After 50 years, you’d think there is no picture of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing that hasn ... camera perched on a flat-topped rock in the background.

Moon dust, scaled in plastic bottles ... begin detailed analysis of the lunar soil collected on last July's Apollo 11 mission. Their research will provide a much clearer picture of lunar surface ...

Cade Martin It’s only the size of a suitcase, 8 by 19 by 11.7 ... of the moon, Apollo 12 astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. holds a scoop for collecting samples. Somehow, the rock Conrad ...

Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below ... and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied. They also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring ...

Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 ...

Apollo 11: Moonwalk Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong ... Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat ...

they might have thought he was there to rob them of their moon rock, given the attention he paid to where the surveillance cameras were and what was protecting the Apollo 11 lunar sample from ...

The borough of Apollo first celebrated the landmark moon landing on ... year included an Apollo 11 interactive journey through the solar system, live entertainment, rock climbing wall, pizza ...

Apollo 11: Moonwalk Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong ... Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat ...