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.

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected them.

This lunar module represents one of humanity’s greatest achievements: landing people on another heavenly body. Brief Description Between 1969 and 1972, six lunar modules identical to this one landed a ...

The Apollo program was the name of NASA's project to land humans on the moon in the 1960s and early 1970s. With the success of Apollo 11 in 1969, which put astronauts on the lunar surface for the ...

With data from NASA's LRO mission, researchers have recreated what the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their trip around the moon.

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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.

Michael Collins, the one astronaut who did not step foot on the moon during the famed Apollo 11 mission, has died. He was 90.