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Why do we say exactly what we’re not supposed to?

If you want to avoid embarrassing soundbites, don’t try too hard

DIY on the Moon: how Buzz saved the launch back to Earth

An extract from Buzz Aldrin’s book, Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon

Now for the next forty years

A new wave of explorers is eyeing the Moon’s resources, says Catherine Philp

It is rocket science

Behind the brilliant minds of the Apollo 11 programme, toiled 400,000 heroes, writes Anjana Ahuja

How US was nearly pipped to first moon rock samples

Sir Bernard Lovell tells Erica Wagner how he listened from Jodrell Bank to the drama, with the original audio from 1969

On your Marx, get set, go!

Michael Binyon recalls how the Cold War rivals tried to eclipse each other

‘The Moon was the perfect surface for a rewrite’

Jeanette Winterson explores the symbolism of the moon

New global warming threat: shrinking sheep

Animals in the Outer Hebrides lose 5 per cent of body mass

Culture, not climate, will change our evolution

Animals are already showing changes due to global warming, but for humans interbreeding and technology are more important

Lovell telescope audio

Listen to the original signals from the lunar surface, as monitored by British astronomers

Impact of moon conspiracy theory on society

Why do some people choose to believe that astronauts never visited the moon? Does it tell us more about ourselves than about space travel?

Animation: NASA to return to the moon

The first step on the journey to Mars and beyond starts with a return to the surface of our nearest neighbour

Moon rock of ages

The missions provided a spectacular hoard of science that continues to reward researchers today, says Stuart Clark