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.

NASA decided the word excursion sounded like a school field trip, and so renamed it the Lunar Module (LM). The rest of the spacecraft’s development was much more complicated, right down to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 aboard Apollo 5 in 1968 went off without a hitch.

From the Orion’s European Service Module (ESM) to the Japanese life support systems to be installed on the Lunar Gateway Station, America won’t be going to the Moon alone this time.

The full-scale replica of the craft that landed Neil Armstrong and others on the moon will be unveiled at the museum on Dec. 15.

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.