Apollo 16 was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth to land on the Moon. The astronauts braved an extended stay on the lunar surface, with a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Visit Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 days, the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. Named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods, Mercury has 'mercurial' temperature swings from extreme heat to ex...
Listen in as U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin perform operations on the Moon for hours! Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight to land humans on the Moon, touching down in the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Footage courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Spa...
