Witness the intricate steps of the Apollo docking sequence in this comprehensive video, showcasing how the Command Module (CM ...

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. Full slideshow at LIFE.com.

A solid gold Apollo lunar module model presented to moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is up for auction.

A gold model of an Apollo lunar module gifted to Neil Armstrong shortly after the first moon landing in 1969 has been stolen from the Ohio museum that bears the astronaut's name.

Photos celebrating the remarkably inventive and daring spacecraft known as LEM, from the drawing board to the Apollo 11 mission.

Police in Wapakoneta, Ohio, say the solid gold replica of the 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module was stolen from the Armstrong Air & Space Museum late Friday.

A rare gold model of the Lunar Module “Eagle” used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to land on the moon is expected to reach over $150,000 at auction this week.

The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module, [Plasanator]’s photos and build details will show off how he constructed one for a kid’s event that … ...

Flipping all the way to the back page, you would have seen a photo of an Apollo Lunar Module model with the caption, "It's ugly, but it gets you there." ...

Back inside the studio, t wo men hover over a tennis ball-size three dimensional model of the Lunar module on a sandy-looking surface with craters. Their faces are illuminated by artificial light.

At one point, the astronauts drove their lunar rover a record-breaking, terrifying-when-you-think-about-it 4.7 miles away from the sanctuary of their lunar module.