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 ...

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 ...

A tribute to the Lunar Excursion Model (LEM), that which ... Full slideshow at LIFE.com. Apollo 9 astronaut Dave Scott stands in the open hatch of the Command Module, nicknamed 'Gumdrop,' docked ...

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 ...

A solid gold model of NASA's Apollo lunar module is now ... more by the close of the auction on Nov. 16. "Intricately reproducing the iconic lunar module in solid [18 karat] gold and presented ...

Lego’s minifigure recreation of the Apollo 11 lunar landing comes with a moonscape. (Lego Photo) That’s one giant heap of Lego bricks: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon ...

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 ...

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 ...