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that simulated the flying characteristics of the Lunar Module (LM) for the final several hundred feet of the descent to the surface. In the LRL, technicians prepared the Apollo Lunar Sample Return ...

The four-module, 18,100-lb. (8,200 kg) Chang’e 5 mission — China’s first-ever sample-return effort — launched on Nov. 23 and arrived in lunar orbit five days later. Two of the four modules, a lander ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

What's the mission? The CLPS mission will take the Blue Ghost lander, which resembles a smaller version of the Apollo lunar descent module, to the lunar surface. Type of craft: Lander.

Chaffee, the three astronauts who were set to launch on the first crewed mission of the Apollo lunar landing program. The ceremony, attended by former NASA astronauts, current NASA leaders and ...

a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module with all three astronauts trapped inside. Heat caused the air pressure inside the spacecraft to rise, making it impossible for the astronauts to ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...