This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that successfully landed astronauts on the moon. The Lunar Module ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the liquid propellant Lunar Module Ascent Engine. It was one of the most important in the manned Project Apollo missions since it was used to lift up the 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 ...

A mission control screen simulation of the Chang'e-6 orbiter (left) and ascent vehicle docked in lunar orbit, June 6, 2024. Credit: Screenshot/CNSA HELSINKI — An ascent vehicle docked with the Chang’e ...

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