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 ...

Apollo VII practiced that maneuver in Earth orbit, with no LEM aboard. The close-to-home pantomime would play out for real just a few missions later.

So Gomes was in his living room when Apollo 11's LEM made its approach to the lunar surface It wasn't until after the mission he learned the details of Armstrong's breathtaking, last-second seat ...

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.

CWEA helped save the crew of Apollo 13 when the LEM and its safety systems brought the faulty Saturn rocket safely back to Earth after an oxygen tank on the command and service module exploded.

With today’s inauguration, President Donald Trump is back in charge of the Artemis program. NASA’s 21st-century moon program began during Trump’s first term but has been plagued with ...

This illustration from NASA shows how the Apollo 12 astronauts — and those on future Apollo missions — would sleep in hammocks aboard the LEM while on the moon.

But if you think the LEM looked like a screaming metal deathtrap, imagine a similar Soviet spacecraft half the size and more claustrophobic. This is the story of LK, the Soviet answer to Apollo's LEM.