The US bid farewell Thursday to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take that giant leap on to the moon.

Washington's movers and shaker, the pioneers of space, and the everyday public crowded into the...

1. Various of Ares I-X rocket on launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre AUDIO countdown

2. Wide of rocket being lau
nched
3. Various of rocket li
fting off
4. View of rocket tail from
on...

1. ANIMATION: various of rocket to be used in proposed lunar mission

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shana Dale, NASA Deputy Administra
tor:
"The vision for space exploration also laid out a programme that is supposed...

1. U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama standing to attention; zoom out to wide

2. Wide of audience; pan
left
3. Wide of Obama
speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama,
US...

China plans to launch its next lunar probe in 2017, with the aim of bringing moon samples back to Earth.

The announcement was made on Monday by the country's Lunar Exploration Programme, following the successful...

HEADLINE: Robots Race To The Moon

CAPTION: Teams from around the world are gearing for the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over...

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82.

He became a global hero when, as a steely-nerved US pilot, he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: Restored video of Apollo 11 moonwalk

CAPTION: NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th...

Washington,DC - July 20, 2004

1. Remaining Apollo astronauts walking on
stage
2. Astronauts accep
ting award
3. Astr
onauts on stage
4.
Audience applauding
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sean...

English/Nat

Mapping of the moon's surface has already begun during the first few days of the mission of the Lunar Prospector to the
moon.
The satellite has performed almost flawlessly on the...

HEADLINE: Teams race across the moon, on Earth

CAPTION: Student teams from around the world are converging on north Alabama for NASA's 19th annual Great Moonbuggy Race. The competition is inspired by the lunar rovers...

1. NASA animation with commentary

2. Press confe
rence
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Andrews, Project Manager and Ames Resear
ch Manager
"And then we fly right through that plume. So we have an excellent...

ANIMATION (File) NASA

1. Artist conception of Mars lander descending to planet su
rface
2. Astronauts exiting on to Ma
rs surface
3. Ma
nned Mars rover
Washington, DC (Jan
uary 12,...

1. NASA animation of Ebb and Flow, or the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), travelling above the surface of the moon

2. NASA animation of GRAIL orbiting the moon on its final orbit before...

English/Nat

NASA is celebrating the glory days of its moon landi
ngs.
On the 30th anniversary of the launch of Apollo Eleven, the agency welcomed back moon-walking astronauts to Florida, and...

Interview with rocket scientist Wernher von Braun in New York about landing on the moon, Braun saying he believes it will happen in second part of 1969.

1. ms zoom in and out to Braun interviewed by a woman reporter SOUNDBITE...

Scientists including Dr. William H. Pickering hold press conference as NASA's Ranger 8 research spacecraft impacts on moon.

1. ms announcer at p
odium
2. ms audienc
e SOUND ON
3. SOUNDBITE [ENGLISH]: ms pan left...

China vowed on Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, by around 2018, and launch its first Mars probe by 2020.The...

Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing was displayed Thursday at a New York auction house.The lunar dust and some tiny rocks the late astronaut collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an...

Forty-eight years after he landed on the moon, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday rolled out a red carpet for the red planet at a star-studded gala at the Kennedy Space Center.Aldrin, 87, commemorated the upcoming anniversary of...

LEADIN:

Russia is showing off its latest space innovations at the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon - MAKS 2017 - outside of Mos
cow.
...

LEADIN:

Russia is showing off its latest space innovations at the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon - MAKS 2017 - outside of Mos
cow.
...

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

SHOTL
IST:
NASA TV - AP CL
IENTS ONLY
FILE: Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas
- 12 April 2006

...

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

SHOTL
IST:
NASA TV - AP CL
IENTS ONLY
FILE: Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas
- 12 April 2006

...