The lunar module: From models to the moon. A tribute to the Lunar Excursion Model (LEM), that which allowed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to take their first, historic steps on the moon.

NASA decided the word excursion sounded like a school field trip, and so renamed it the Lunar Module (LM). The rest of the spacecraft’s development was much more complicated, right down to the ...

The Apollo 11 mission has been fodder for conspiracy theorists ever since the lunar excursion module (LEM) touched down on the moon's surface on 20 July 1969. We've already debunked several of the ...

Roserio (Ross) Bracco was selected as one of the initial group of 25 engineers who would begin development of the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) in November 1962 at Grumman's Bethpage, NY, facility. The ...

The museum's 8,650-pound, nearly 23-foot tall lander, LM-2 (shorthand for Lunar Excursion Module), was a test-vehicle, but a previous test of LM-1 aboard Apollo 5 in 1968 went off without a hitch.

From the Orion’s European Service Module (ESM) to the Japanese life support systems to be installed on the Lunar Gateway Station, America won’t be going to the Moon alone this time.

The NASA inspector general's office is investigating plans by a private auction house to sell a relic of humanity's first expedition to land on the moon. A silvery grab handle attached to the ...

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.

Two astronauts would descend to the Moon's surface in a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and another LEM would be already there. The plan refers to each as the LEM Taxi and LEM Shelter, respectively.

NASA still has more to learn more about how the regolith and surface will be affected when a spacecraft much larger than the Apollo lunar excursion module lands, whether it's on the moon for ...