Apollo 10 "dress rehearsal" mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

Thus, says NASM curator Allan Needell, "the lunar module looks flimsy and gangly—it's a very pure design built for a very specific mission." Every astronaut who went to the moon, he adds ...

One computer sat in the Command Module, another in the Lunar Module, just above the hatch ... made from similar materials but with a different design. Each core in the erasable memory could ...

During the Apollo program, geologists’ knowledge of the moon’s surface helped engineers design the rovers, as well as the landing pads of the lunar module to guarantee a soft landing.

The design was set in 1963, with Grumman building the first test landers, and in March of 1969, the Lunar Module actually flew, with astronauts inside, with Apollo 9. The Lunar Module would orbit ...

Caption The Chang’e-5 spacecraft comprised of an orbiter and return module (ORM), which remained in the lunar orbit in space, and a lander and ascender module (LAM), which proceeded to land on ...