Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space education foundation...

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Space scientists have just discovered frozen water on the surface of the
moon.
The announcement came following the launch of a robot survey spacecraft in January which has spent...

HEADLINE: NASA thrilled with double moon bombing

CAPTION: NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole on Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite...

HEADLINE: Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built

CAPTION: To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world''s most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid...

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Some of the original astronauts gathered in Houston on Saturday to pay tribute to Alan Shepard - one of America's true adventu
rers.
They described their...

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More than a quarter of a century after man last visited the moon, NASA is poised to return to the scene of one of its greatest space triu
mphs.
This time, the star of the show will be a little...

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It's exactly 30 years since two U-S astronauts stepped out of their spacecraft and into the history books as the first humans to ever set foot on the
moon.
And on...

1. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin walks in

2.
Press
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Michael Griffin, NASA Admi
nistrator:
"We're talking about returning to the moon in 2018. There will be a lot more...

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It's certainly not the most glamourous finish for an old satel
lite.
Scientists in the U-S plan to crash the Lunar Prospector into the surface of the moon at about 6-thousand...

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For the second night in a row, NASA aimed for the moon Tuesday, launching a spacecraft to look for water that could one day be used by human sett
lers.
It's NASA's first moon mission in
25...

HEADLINE: NASA probes hit moon twice

CAPTION: Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. NASA officials say data confirms that a large empty rocket hull...

NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bullseye" splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles and ushered in a new era of human exploration aiming for...

HEADLINE: Asteroid Anxiety? Astronomers say not to worry.

CAPTION: Asteroid 2005YU55 approaches and is the subject of research, not the script of Hollywood. Rock the size of aircraft carrier stays between...

Cape Canaveral, Florida / Moon - FILE July 1969

00.00 Astronauts Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin walk to bus taking them to launc
h pad
00.09 UPSOUND: Close up of rockets...

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The last two men to walk on the moon think we should go back there -- and be
yond.
Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt say the future lies in d
eep...

NASA Television

FILE - Tranquility Base, the Moon - July 20,
1969
1. Neil Armstrong steps out on to lun
ar surface
2. UPSOUND: (English) Neil Armstrong, first m
an...

FILE - Lunar Surface - July 20, 1969

1. Landing of lunar module "Eagle" on surface of
moon
2. Astronaut Neil Armstrong walking on moon UPSOUND "One small step for man. One giant leap...

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New York - April 4,
2014
1. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Cassandra Hatton, Bonham's space history
specialist
"So this auction really covers the gamut...

Popular South Korean boy band Infinite likened their first world tour, "One Great Step", to astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.

The seven-member group opened their world...

HEADLINE: Apollo 11: 40 years later some refuse to believe

CAPTION: Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon some still insist the entire mission was...

NASA honored one of its most famous astronauts Monday by renaming a historic building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It now bears the name of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon when the...

HEADLINE: Former astronauts calling for trip to Mars

CAPTION: On the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, several former astronauts met the media in Washington Monday. One of the topics discussed was exploring life...