There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

It was a dreary, drizzly day near Parma, Italy, when two scientists first took on the Wall of Death. An amusement park attraction, the Wall looks something like a giant wooden barrel with the top ...

A large, ordinary-looking warehouse in the German city of Cologne is the closest you can get to walking on the moon—without leaving Earth. The facility known as LUNA, which was officially inaugurated ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected ...

For many years, I’ve been a devotee of full-moon walks. We’ve walked by balmy summer moons in t-shirts with katydids singing and lightning bugs flashing in a multi-sensory display. We’ve walked under ...