Almost forgotten now, the mission circled the Earth for 10 days, performing a series of tests with the lunar lander. What it ...

That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...

Experts studied the Uniondale museum's lunar module simulator that once trained Apollo astronauts who went to the moon.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

This striking view, enhanced by the large format of this exceptional vintage print, gives the viewer the remarkable sensation of looking through a window at one of the most extraordinary events in ...

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Click to open image viewer. This plaque is a replica of the one left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 16, who landed on the lunar surface on April 20, 1972. While command module pilot Ken Mattingly ...