Missions

The latest news from the spacecraft helping us explore the cosmos, and the historical missions that paved the way.

ESA's new Comet Interceptor mission will send a spacecraft to study a pristine comet entering the Solar System for the first time. Credit: Comet Interceptor

Interview How Comet Interceptor will encounter a pristine comet in space

An artist's concept showing NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in front of an infrared image of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Interview NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: the legacy of a Universe in infrared

Tim Peake pictured on the ISS as part of his Principia mission. Credit: ESA/NASA

Interview Tim Peake on the future of UK and ESA spaceflight

Neil Armstrong's flown spacesuit. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The Apollo spacesuit

Installation of the F-1 engines. Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Secrets of Apollo The Saturn V's F-1 engine

NASA planned to convert the upper stage of a Saturn V rocket to hold Venus-bound astronauts. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The missions that might have been

History of the moon landing

History Extra The history of the moonlanding

The Apollo Guidance Computer delivered astronauts safely to the lunar surface. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The Apollo Guidance Computer

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module gets ready to land. This image was captured from the Command and Service Module. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The versatile Lunar Module

JFK-Focus

Science Focus “We choose to go to the Moon”: Read JFK’s Moon speech in full

Mary-Jackson-Focus

Science Focus Ladies who launch: the women behind the Apollo Program

Buzz Aldrin pictured on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: NASA

Apollo 11 celebrate 50 years since the moonlanding

FOCUSCARD

Science Focus Podcast Why is the Moon landing still relevant 50 years on?

The Saturn V LVDC. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The Saturn V's autopilot