Their Lunar Module vehicle, the N1, obviously was a failure. They knew they couldn't land on the moon first, but they thought they had a very good chance of at least circumnavigating the moon ...

Credit: NASA/Kuner In 2022 the first stage, Artemis I, saw the test of a new rocket and uncrewed lunar module called Orion sent around the moon and back to Earth again. Artemis II, due to launch ...

TASS/. The launch of the H2A carrier rocket with Japan's first lunar landing module called SLIM scheduled for Monday has been postponed, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reported.

has successfully separated from the H2A carrier rocket, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said. The lunar module separated routinely 47 minutes after the launch from the Tanegashima ...

Notably, Mission NS-29 simulated lunar gravity — an apparent first for a suborbital flight — with 29 of the rocket’s 30 payloads ... a way that spun the crew module up to 11 times a minute ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt ...