The lunar module: From models to the moon. 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.

No one knew how to land on another world, much less how to build something that could land on the Moon, so NASA asked interested contractors to submit bids to build the Lunar Excursion Module.

The Apollo 11 mission has been fodder for conspiracy theorists ever since the lunar excursion module (LEM) touched down on the moon's surface on 20 July 1969. We've already debunked several of the ...

Roserio (Ross) Bracco was selected as one of the initial group of 25 engineers who would begin development of the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) in November 1962 at Grumman's Bethpage, NY, facility. The ...

Arthur Schatz—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A full-scale model of the Lunar Excursion Module, 1969. The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images An astronaut descends a ladder during a ...

Buzz Aldrin egresses the "Eagle" -- the Lunar Excursion Module -- and begins to descend the steps of the module ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon. Credit: NASA/NEIL ARMSTRONG.

The landers were not meant to return to Earth. The museum's 8,650-pound, nearly 23-foot tall lander, LM-2 (shorthand for Lunar Excursion Module), was a test-vehicle, but a previous test of LM-1 ...

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.

Crews were hard to work today at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Naval Air Station Pensacola to build a full-scale replica of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module, the craft that landed Neil ...

Thieves broke into the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum Friday night and stole a gold replica of the 1969 Lunar Excursion Module that landed on the moon, police in Wapakoneta, Ohio, reported.