The propulsion module — a unit shaped like a large box with a solar panel and an engine strapped to its bottom — propelled the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lunar lander during most of its trek to ...

And the lunar module ended up saving the lives of the Apollo 13 crewmembers in 1970, after an explosion badly damaged their command module. Assuming that the command module's main engine was ...

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar Module’s ascent engine and get back to the orbiting command and ...

The Apollo Lunar Module was the part of the Apollo Spacecraft ... It had the controls, two windows, more equipment, a docking hatch, and the engine to leave the lunar surface.

At that point, the crew would fire the lunar module's main engine — powered descent initiation, or PDI — to begin the 12-minute plunge to the targeted landing zone in the Sea of Tranquility.

And sure, the lunar module carried an engine able to get the astronauts to Earth orbit from the moon's neighborhood. But this was far from what the lander was designed to do, and doing so was a ...

The explosive bolts sheer, the engine fires and then the camera, mounted on the Lunar Rover parked 145 metres away from the Lander, automatically zooms out and tilts upwards following the Module’s ...