The lunar module, known as Eagle, was left in lunar orbit after it rendezvoused with the command module Collins was in the next day and Eagle eventually landed back on the moon’s surface.

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 ...

After touchdown and acquiring lunar soil samples, the ascent module used the descent module ... reminiscent of the early Earth orbit rendezvous concepts. Though not as fuel efficient, the strategy ...

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 ...

The LRV now had to fit within the existing lunar module, which only had the rough equivalent of a small dinner table’s worth of space for the vehicle. And the rover still had to carry two ...

Think pre-Apollo concepts of space travel ... while a lightweight lunar module, designed solely to land and return from the lunar surface, made the descent. The catch? Astronauts, circling ...

The move aims to test how the growing space power might one day return samples of lunar soil. The propulsion module had more fuel left over than the Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO ...