there was no way to determine how close they were to the intended landing point. In order to solve this navigational problem, the crew of Apollo 12 opened the top hatch of the LEM, poked their ...

Nevertheless, someone saved a copy of the NBC broadcast event for Apollo 11's historic landing using a CV2100 ... cameras on the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), so a big chunk of the broadcast ...

Apollo XV almost came to ruin the second it touched down. NASA had strict rules about how sharp an angle was safe for a LEM landing, and a 15-degree slope was the absolute maximum. Any steeper and ...

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines through a NASA-sponsored program put the U.S. back on the moon for the ...

Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, Americans will once again ... of what we’re attempting here is attempting a launch and landing on the surface moon for a fraction of what it would ...

On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was too frivolous a name for the moon-landing craft ... technicians training for the forthcoming Apollo 9 mission (Feb. 28) began substituting ...