In the first week of March 1969, NASA's Apollo 9 mission saw the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) getting its first full orbital workout as the US sprinted the last lap of the race to be the first on ...

Well, that's the story of LM-13, the Apollo-era Grumman Lunar Excursion Module that never made it to the Moon. Today, LM-13 finds its home inside a museum not quite like any other.

Here, the Apollo XI LEM has separated from the command module and hangs, seemingly upside down (though there is no upside down in space) before the camera of Michael Collins, ...

Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS. He was amazed when he learned of recent space-flight advances: “What we did with the LEM was crude compared to what they are doing now.” ...

By Apollo 12’s launch in November 1969, the space agency had a sleep solution that was lightweight and would allow astronauts to lie down horizontally in the LEM: moon hammocks.

The Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) moon lander carried the drogue system. (The LEM was later called the Lunar Module, which was abbreviated LM and pronounced "lem.") ...

Apollo 11 headed down, with Aldrin and Armstrong (and millions on the ground) at a state of high alert and attention. They passed a couple of key waypoints early, and Armstrong knew they were ...

The full-scale replica of the craft that landed Neil Armstrong and others on the moon will be unveiled at the museum on Dec. 15.

ateline NBC commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 13 with interviews with the astronauts, ... The spidery lunar module, or LEM, would carry two astronauts to the lunar surface, ...

On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off on the second planned moon landing mission.. Following the smashing success of the first manned moon landing roughly four months earlier, Apollo 12 was to ...