Eagle, or the Apollo 11 lunar module, was part of a larger spacecraft that launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, on a Saturn V rocket The lunar module was the spacecraft used to take Neil ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

What they see might well determine the success or failure of the Apollo moon mission ... space suits and the thin walls of a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). Caught on the surface of the moon ...

The company designed systems for Project Mercury, the X-15 spaceplane, and the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, and was crucial in the development of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module's rocket engine.

In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and ...

What's the mission? The CLPS mission will take the Blue Ghost lander, which resembles a smaller version of the Apollo lunar descent module, to the lunar surface. Type of craft: Lander.

Schmitt, a geologist who walked on the moon during Apollo 17, is executive chairman of Interlune, founded in 2020 to harvest lunar resources. Helium-3 now commands a stable price of around $20 ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo ...

In 1967, Nobel laureate Harold Urey and James Arnold -- both faculty members in UC San Diego's Department of Chemistry -- were among the first to receive Apollo 11 lunar samples. Urey was one of ...

Lunar Gateway’s First Habitable Module Begins Final Installation is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included ...

The entirety of the lower 48 states, the greater Americas, and some regions beyond will witness — weather permitting — a total lunar eclipse ... Totality begins at 11:26 p.m. PDT on March ...