On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. These programmes and clips tell the story of the Apollo Moon missions, how they got off the ground and why the missions ...

More than 100 spacecraft have been sent to the Moon since 1959, when a Soviet probe became the "first man-made object to ... that the effects of spacecraft landings, lunar rovers and other human ...

In September 2002, the astronaut Buzz Aldrin – the second man ... landings were a gigantic scam, perpetrated on the whole ...

of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Neil Armstrong took that “one small step” and “one giant leap” on July 20, 1969 – nearly six years after JFK’s death.

Many are likely to be familiar with the quote: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap ... the 55th anniversary of the first astronauts landing on the Moon. The space agency will ...