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.” ...

Here, the Apollo XI LEM has separated from the command module and hangs, seemingly upside down (though there is no upside down in space) before the camera of Michael Collins, ...

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.

Two astronauts would descend to the Moon's surface in a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), ... Like Apollo's budget, this would have likely ballooned into the billions by the 1970s if fully funded.