The cancelled Moon landings: Apollo 18, 19 and 20

The history books show that the crew of Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans - are the last people to have travelled to the Moon to date. It wasn't always meant to be that way. NASA had originally planned three extra missions (Apollo 18, 19 and 20), but dwindling public and …

What happened when Apollo 12 was struck by lightning… twice

All things considered, it was pretty ironic that Apollo 12 was headed for an area of the Moon known as the Ocean of Storms. Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean launched into thundery skies in November 1969 and less than a minute later were struck by not one, but two bolts of lightning.

Gemini 11: The astronauts who fell asleep during a spacewalk

Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon's photography experiments could only be done while Gemini 11 was on the night side of Earth. So what did they do while waiting to slip into darkness again? With only their spacesuits separating them from the void of space - and with Gordon having half his body hanging out of Gemini 11 - they dozed off.

The astronaut knocked out by his own camera

Have you ever started to think that maybe a certain piece of technology has it in for you? The thought must have crossed the mind of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, as he struggled with cameras throughout the mission.