Apollo

Articles and guides about the US space programme to land human beings on the Moon.

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

A stereo image of Apollo 16 Lunar Module pilot Charlie Duke on the Moon, as seen in the book Mission Moon 3D

Mission Moon 3-D: Brian May’s new book about the Apollo programme

First Man movie Ryan Gosling

Film and TV reviews

Radio Times Apollo 11 on-screen: TV, film and radio celebrating the moonlanding

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

Secrets of Apollo The Apollo Guidance Computer

A view of the Apollo 11 landing sites in Mare Tranquillitatis. Credit: Pete Lawrence

How to find Apollo 11’s landing site on the Moon

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

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

Buzz Aldrin descends the ladder of the Lunar Module to become the second human to set foot on the surface of the Moon. Credit: NASA

Radio Astronomy Podcast Apollo 11: 50th anniversary special

24 July 1969. The command module is lowered onto the deck of the USS Hornet to be prepared for transport back to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston. At the top are the three air sacks that inflated to right the module when it came to rest upside-down after splashdown. Credit: NASA

In pictures Apollo 11's return to Earth, 24 July 1969