Their mission launched on December 21, 1968 and lasted for six days. The Lunar Module was completed in time for Apollo 9, the first earth orbit test of that equipment. On March 3, 1969 ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the software for the Apollo Lunar Module. Their system worked, but almost ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

They also carried a lunar roving vehicle. Apollo 15 was supposed to use a standard-size module: LM-9. But after Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled, NASA was eager to make the most out of ...