The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland’s National Archives documents. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The NASA ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on December 24, 1968. Anders, lunar module pilot on the Apollo 8 mission, and fellow astronauts Frank ...

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The rock was collected on Nasa’s Apollo 11 mission and gifted to Eamon de Valera, the Irish president at the time, in 1970. Previously confidential documents from the Dublin National Archives ...

Other firsts accomplished during the Apollo 8 mission included the first crewed mission launched on the Saturn V, the first crew to ascend from Launch Complex 39, NASA's new Moonport, the first humans ...

made it to the moon in February 2024 marking America's first return to the moon since NASA's Apollo era in the 1970s. The area where the lander touched down is also considered to be the ...