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Water purification to breathing masks, 4 innovations Apollo mission gave us

Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings

Why moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake in 1969

Moon landings footage would have been impossible to fake - a film expert explains why

Reality or studio shoot? Why moon landing conspiracy theories still exist

In the US, opinion polls indicate that between 5-10% of Americans distrust the official version of events

'Peace & hope for all mankind': The stellar legacy of the last moon landing

Data & discoveries from Apollo missions, and especially Apollo 17 are still being investigated today

Moon mystery solved; massive impact behind two different faces: Study

Multiple theories had tried to explain the stark differences between the two sides of the moon

Moon is shrinking like a 'raisin', triggering wrinkles and quakes: Nasa

As a result, the Moon has become about 150 feet (50 metres) "skinnier" over the past several hundred million years

Israel's moon mission blasts off Florida; could be first pvt sector landing

The Israeli craft has been placed in Earth orbit, from where it will use its own engine to undertake a seven-week trip to reach the Moon and touch down on April 11 in a large plain

Rocket launches, trips to the Moon and more space events in 2019

Here are some of the launches, space science and other events we anticipate.

Shooting for the moon

China's artificial moon project could be a game changer

Here's why we should forget about Mars right now and return to the moon

Since the dawn of the space age, there have been over 60 successful missions to the moon, including eight that were manned

Moon may have huge reservoirs of water trapped under surface: Scientists

Scientists had assumed for years that the interior of the Moon had been largely depleted of water

Students plan to brew beer on the Moon

Experiment will test the viability of yeast on the Moon and result in a freshly brewed batch of beer

Our Moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, reveals study

Moon was formed by violent, head-on collision between early Earth and planetary embryo called Theia

Moon may have formed from collision of tiny moonlets, shows new study

A pre-existing moon would slowly move out by the time another moon forms

Florida firm aims for the moon and gets it too

Florida-based company won US government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm's founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit.The Federal Aviation Administration's unprecedented go-ahead for the Moon Express mission also sets a legal and regulatory framework for a host of other commercial expeditions to the moon, asteroids and Mars.As approved by the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, the privately held Moon Express, headquartered in Cape Canaveral, plans to fly a suitcase-sized lander to the moon for a two-week mission in 2017, said the company founder and chief executive Bob Richards.The spacecraft will carry a number of science experiments and some commercial cargo on its one-way trip to the lunar surface, including cremated human remains, and will beam back pictures and video to Earth, the company said.Before now, no government agency was recognised as h