Walking on the moon

It might be quicker than we originally believed, but it's a logistical nightmare.

Marcus L. asks: How many people walked on the moon? Who were they? Forty-five years ago this month, a human being first set foot on the moon. Despite four and a half decades and amazing leaps in technology, to date only 11 other people have done this – and every one flew in an Apollo mission for the National Aeronautics [...]

Thousands of photos from Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon have been added to Flickr

Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact.

Moonwalk To the moon he walks, driven by his dreams, in his sleep he talks, so far away he seems. He leaves the roofs below with every step he takes. He's captured by the glow, his last resistance breaks. (Copyright for words: Ines Langs, January 17, 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a scan of a post card, which I bought today. As soon as I had seen it in the shop, it caught my attention and fascinated me. It whispered "Buy me ..."…

The Sea of Tranquility is the landing site of Apollo 11, the mission that gave mankind its first ever walk on the Moon. Walk? Yes, that’s right. The Sea of Tranquility is not actually a sea, so Neil Armstrong didn’t have to walk on water. In fact, there isn’t a single sea on the lunar … Continue reading "Sea of Tranquility"

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

Eight years after Russian Yuri Gagarin exited the atmosphere in a space capsule and circled the earth, the United States made history by landing men on the moon. The historic day was July 21, 1969 and Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface and Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Before the Apollo space program ended there would be 38 astronauts participating and of those 38 only twelve would actually put their feet on the moon.

After each of the Apollo missions to the moon, core samples drilled into the lunar regolith were examined, using Munsell Color Charts to describe the color. Find out more about their mission on the Munsell Color Blog.