The Chang’e 5 spacecraft followed a familiar, Apollo-style playbook, consisting of a service module that supplied power and propulsion to a lunar lander and a module for returning samples to Earth.

A NASA-published volume traces the history of human lunar lander concepts developed since Apollo’s Lunar Module (LM). After LM – NASA Lunar Lander Concepts Beyond Apollo tells the story of ...

That is the challenge tackled by a group of students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who wrote a proposal for ...

In the early 1960s, NASA was considering three different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt's plan ultimately won out despite concerns within NASA that it was too risky.

Before NASA and its industry contractors settled on a final design for the Grumman-built Lunar Module, ... histories for more than 80 lunar lander concepts of the 1950s ... 410 Lunar Direct (1961 ...

The lunar module came to within 8 and a half miles of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers. Here: The Apollo 10 Command Module orbiting the moon, May 1969. read more. NASA. Share.

NASA has updated a planned call for proposals for lunar landers to enable a human mission in 2024, broadening the scope to include integrated lander concepts.

While Grumman may have built the Lunar Module back in the '60s, it's doubtful that any of those engineers are still around or employed by the now Northrop Grumman to have worked on this. Still an ...

Musk's SpaceX, Bezos' Blue Origin and a third company, Dynetics, a Huntsville, Ala., subsidiary of Leidos, will share $967 million in development money from NASA to flesh out concepts for the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has quietly decided to give Northrop Grumman a contract to build a "minimal" habitation module for its lunar Gateway after concluding it was the only company that could meet ...

The claim: Post implies Apollo missions didn't happen because lunar module can't travel between Earth and the moon. A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has updated a planned call for proposals for lunar landers to enable a human mission in 2024, broadening the scope to include integrated lander concepts. In a procurement ...