Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, ...

Today, lunar lander LM-2 ("LM" is shorthand for Lunar Excursion Module) remains earthbound—a 50-year-old vehicle that never got off the launchpad. It is on display at the Smithsonian's National ...

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 ...

the limiting factor would have become how long the crew could realistically remain cooped up in the tiny Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). In comparison, the Artemis program is far more ambitious.

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 ...

The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module, which was supposed to shuttle two crew members to the moon. “I’m coming in,” Mr. Smylie said. Mr. Smylie ...

The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module, which was supposed to shuttle two crew members to the moon. "I'm coming in," Smylie said. Smylie knew there was ...