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.

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.” ...

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.") ...

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.

This is the story of LK, the Soviet answer to Apollo's LEM.Let's take a look at why this prized piece of communist tech never made its way to the Lunar surface.

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 ...

On this date 50 years ago, the jinxed Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The spacecraft’s lunar module never landed on the moon as intended, but considering everything that ...

Without the LEM, Apollo 8 couldn't fly, which would set back the program by months. Forget the LEM. No one knows who had the idea first, but it was NASA administrator George Low who championed it.

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 ...