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Click to open image viewer. This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which contained ...

On the third page of Joseph Mollendorf’s resume is a brief line describing a job he held in 1966 with Bell Aerosystems: June 1966 – September 1966: Engineer, Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module Ascent ...

When things went wrong on the unmanned Apollo 5 mission in January 1968, Paul J. Morgante Sr. was in NASA’s Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas. As project engineer at Bell Aerospace for the ...