Sources: National Geographic
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers a recently formed crater on the moon larger than the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. 2026-09-16
NASA begins the countdown for the launch of Artemis II, set to be the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, with liftoff scheduled for 1 April. 2026-03-30
NASA's "Orion" spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 km of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit. 2022-11-21
NASA confirms water has been spotted on the sunlit surface of the moon. 2020-10-26
NASA officially selects SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build its next-generation lunar lander to carry American astronauts to the Moon by 2024. 2020-04-30
U.S. President Donald Trump signs the "Space Policy Directive 1" that establishes the foundation for a crewed mission to the Moon, while also maintaining a longer-term NASA goal of landing a man on Mars. 2017-12-11
NASA publishes LRO images of the two craters on the Moon, where twin GRAIL probes ended their gravity-mapping mission in December 2012. 2013-03-19
NASA scientists beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the "Mona Lisa", to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon, marking a first in laser communication. 2013-01-18
NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft crash into a mile-high cliff near the Lunar North Pole to close out a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field with unprecedented precision. 2012-12-17
NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon. 2011-12-31