Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver ... The rods extending from the foot pads are contact probes. When one of them touched the lunar surface, the contact light would ...

NASA was well aware that the Space Race’s fervor would fade once an American stepped foot on the Moon. There were plenty of post-Apollo ideas ... Excursion Module (LEM), and another LEM would ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned ... Collins said he wished Aldrin and Armstrong could have shared the moment at the pad. It was “a wonderful feeling to be back,” the 88-year ...