In this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the Apollo 16 Command and Service Module (CSM) "Casper" approaches the Lunar Module (LM). The two spacecraft were about to make their final ...

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. Police responded ...

Duke, the mission’s Lunar Module Pilot, was an enthusiastic rookie; Apollo 16 would be his first and only spaceflight. Ken Mattingly had been slated to fly as CMP on Apollo 13 but was grounded ...

Opportunity’s science team informally named the Martian feature “Orion Crater” in honor of the Apollo 16 lunar module Orion, which carried astronauts Charles Duke and John Young to and from ...

For NASA’s engineers, finding ways to model ... above the lunar surface during Apollo 10’s “dry run” for the July 1969 moon landing, the various versions of the lunar module that NASA ...

Less than three years later he followed in their footsteps as the Apollo 16 lunar module pilot. The module carrying Duke and Apollo 16 Commander John Young reached the lunar surface on April 20 ...

Not only was the Apollo lunar module not designed to survive reentry ... Apollos 12, 14, 15, and 16 featured a Lunar Passive Seismic Experiment designed to determine the Moon’s sub-surface ...

The original photograph was taken on Feb. 6, 1972, and showed the crew of Apollo 16, Lunar Module Pilot Charles M. Duke, Commander John W. Young, and Command Module Pilot Thomas K. Mattingly II ...

Uranga sought to bring some of that excitement to his students by working with them to create an 80% scale replica of the lunar module. The replica will be the centerpiece of the campus’ Apollo ...