While the Outer Space Treaty bars ownership of the Moon itself, it leaves unresolved the issue of lunar resources. 

Who really owns the moon? Here’s why you can buy land, but it’s legally worth nothing...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo programme has died at the age of 90.

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham passes away at 90

In a record-breaking auction, American astronaut Buzz Aldrin's in-flight jacket that he wore on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission has sold for a record-breaking $2.8 million.

Buzz Aldrin's in-flight jacket worn during Apollo 11 mission sold for record-breaking $2.8 million at auction

NASA has urged Boston-based RR Auction to stop selling the moon dust that was obtained during the 1969 Apollo mission and fed to cockroaches in an experiment to see if it contained any pathogens that presented a hazard to terrestrial life.

NASA wants its moon dust and experiment cockroaches back

The lunar samples collected by American astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission are heading to auction. They are a part of a batch that contains five aluminum sample stubs.

Lunar samples collected by Neil Armstrong, first person to walk on the Moon, are heading to auction

July 16 in history: Invasion of Britain, Apollo 11's launch and more

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Fifty years ago on Saturday, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans in history to set foot on the Moon, an event watched on television by half a billion people.

50 years ago, humanity's first steps on another world

On the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Apollo-11 moon landing, NASA's astronauts are ready to blast off to the International Space Station yet again. Watch this video to know more.

NASA to blast off on 50th anniversary of Apollo 11

Hard soil, big jumps and epiphanies: What it's like on the Moon

As the West and Soviet Union scrambled to claim the Third Reich's best minds following the war, the US was able to exfiltrate Wernher von Braun, the rocket engineer who designed the Nazi's dreaded V-2 missile, and about a hundred of his top scientists and engineers. They eventually moved to the tiny farming town of Huntsville, where the army transformed a weapons arsenal into a centre for missile development, where they greatly contributed to the Apollo program that put a man on the Moon. Their children still live there and carry their heritage as the US celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11

Alabama German village that made Apollo 11 possible remembers 50 years on

It has been a half-century since Neil Armstrong stepped out of a lunar module and onto the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, and declared, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The moment heralded a golden age of space exploration that was set in motion just eight years earlier in 1961 when President John F Kennedy promised before Congress to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Garden City, New York's Cradle of Aviation Museum curator Joshua Stoff explained why the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on Saturday is so significant.

'There's no 7-Eleven on the moon to supply you with spare parts' : Engineer remembers Apollo 11

As the world prepares to mark fifty years since the day American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, Reuters journalist Manuel Carrillo recalls his assignment covering the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. A young Carrillo was working for Mexico's Excelsior Newspaper at the time and was sent to cover the historic event. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, rocketing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into space. Four days later, on July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed Apollo 11's module, the Eagle, on the moon and stepped onto the lunar surface.

Like 'science fiction': Mexican journalist remembers Apollo 11

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rocketing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins into space. Watch this video to know more.

'One giant leap': 50 years since the first moon landing

Saturday marks 50 years since the historic first moon landing of 1969. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rocketing astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into space. Four days later, on July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed Apollo 11's module, the Eagle, on the moon and stepped onto the lunar surface.

Timeline of space exploration 1969 - 2001

NASA's Apollo-era Mission Control in Houston has been restored to the way it looked 50 years ago when two men walked on the moon, with only a few exceptions. It gets the stamp of approval from retired flight director Gene Kranz, a man for whom failure - or even a minor oversight - is never an option. Seated at the console where he ruled over Apollo 11, Apollo 13 and so many other astronaut missions, Kranz pointed out that a phone was missing behind him. And he said the air vents used to be black from all the smoke, not sparkly clean like they are now.

Mission Control restored 50 years after Apollo 11

The maiden flight also marked the first time a privately financed rocket ever attempted to boost a payload out of Earth's orbit

Watch: SpaceX sends a sports car into space with world's most powerful rocket

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