04 Jul - 01 Nov 2009

Do you remember the first moon landing? This new exhibition marks the 40th anniversary of that amazing experience, shared by the whole world, when Apollo 11's astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin took 'one giant leap for mankind'.

Mission to the Moon tells the fascinating story of how we reached for the moon in the mid 20th century, and how this incredible journey ceased to be science fiction and became reality. Find out what space travel achieved for us and what it may yet achieve for us in the future.