Space program hopes to establish long-term human presence on moon as a warm-up for future missions to Mars

Israeli organization gears up for follow-up space mission in 2024, asks global research institutes to submit ideas for experiments

Beresheet 2 mission hopes to launch in 2024 and will see double landing of two small crafts that will detach from mothership, one of them aiming for far side

Sole member of mission who didn't land on lunar surface operated the command module while his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took giant leaps for mankind

Tech developed by Helios melts lunar soil to extract oxygen for fuel, enabling lower payloads and lower costs for space missions

First woman and next man on moon will come from this elite group made up of 9 men and 9 women; space agency hoping for manned lunar landing in 2024, first since 1972

Joint SpaceIL and IAI venture will comprise orbiter and 2 landers; science minister says Emirates one of 7 countries interested in partnering on project

Chang’e 5 will be first probe to obtain fresh samples of moon rock since a Soviet mission in the 1970s

NASA aims to return to Moon by 2024, and has said at least one of the two astronauts who will walk its surface will be a woman

Countdown at Johnson Space Center in Houston marks exact moment Neil Armstrong first stepped onto lunar surface, as celebrations across US held to commemorate historic achievement