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

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 ...

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 ...

When NASA astronauts on Apollo 13 failed in their attempt to land on the moon, NASA engineers were successful in bringing ...

The story of Helias Doundoulakis is like a great war movie. It is the story of the Greek spy who helped Greece and the United ...

Although the Eagle Lunar Excursion Module was assembled, launched, and flown by Americans, the LEM's landing gear was manufactured by Héroux Aerospace of Longueuil, Quebec. Those four landing ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

Sheprow was an Army and Merchant Marine veteran whose work at Grumman included overseeing test flights of the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet and a role in the development of the Lunar Excursion Module ...