The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...
The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available ...
They spent just under 21 hours on the moon, including a two-hour moonwalk, before returning to orbit in the Lunar Module and docking with the Apollo 11 command ... of Apollo 17 traveled ever ...
Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Module "Kitty Hawk" in lunar orbit. Image Credit ... and everyone at NASA knew Apollo 17 would be the last — and it was.