The Lunar Module (LM) was a key part of NASA’s Apollo program, responsible for carrying astronauts from lunar orbit to the ...

Some were lost during missions, others deliberately dumped, all of them now part of the growing problem of space debris.

S69-34328 (17 May 1969) — Ground level view of the 363-feet tall Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle on Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David ...

Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit while astronauts Schmitt and Eugene A. Cernan, commander, descended in the Lunar ...

The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are ...

The Apollo 17 command module America makes a perfect splashdown in the Pacific south of Pago Pago Tuesday Dec. 19, 1972, at the end of the final lunar mission of the Apollo series.

In the end, Apollo 17's crew consisted of Command Module pilot Ronald Evans, Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt, and mission commander Eugene "Gene" Cernan. This crew would be the last to leave ...

Apollo 17 was the last mission to place human on the moon 50 years ago. The rocket lifted off Dec. 7, 1972, and the crew stepped onto the moon Dec. 11.