The Apollo 14 landing site in the highlands of Fra Mauro appears in this image made with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on ... the Saturn V jumped skyward and quickly out of sight into the clouds.

“Orion now has its sights set on home,” said Mission Control commentator Sandra Jones. The capsule also passed over the landing sites of Apollo 12 and 14.

This mission was followed only a few months later by Apollo 12 on November 19, 1969, with Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan L. Bean landing in the Ocean of Storms area of the moon, near the 1967 ...

LRO hasbeamed home an earlier view of the Apollo 14 landing site, as well as snapshots of TranquilityBase, the first manned landing site visited by Apollo 11 astronauts on July20, 1969.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule and its test dummies swooped one last time around the moon Monday, flying over a couple Apollo landing sites before heading home. Orion will ...