After lunar exploration, the Lunar Module is left in orbit while the Command Module returns home. Keywords Apollo spacecraft, lunar mission, Command Module, Service Module, Lunar Module ...

Come see inside the Lunar Module using 3D animation. The Apollo Lunar Module was the part of the Apollo Spacecraft that landed on the moon. The LM was split up into two parts - the ascent stage ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon ...

In a strange and tragic aside, Grissom would die six years later, aged just 40, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission ... to open his helmet’s purge valve to let some fresh oxygen ...

Apollo 10’s lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there, drifting aimlessly around the solar system, waiting for some future exo-archaeologist to snatch it up for display at the Smithsonian.

The aluminum-framed rover had a three-part chassis that was hinged in the center so it could be folded up and transported in the lunar module on the way to the moon during the Apollo 15 mission ...

The LRV’s used during Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions were designed to fold into the lunar module and could be deployed using a system of pulleys. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled ...

A spacecraft left behind by US astronauts on the lunar surface ... of the Apollo-era data that they could pinpoint gentle tremors that emitted from an Apollo 17 lunar lander module sitting a ...

Marusiak was not directly involved in the study, though she did have contact with the authors as a fellow expert in lunar seismology. Marusiak noted that every Apollo mission carried instruments ...