Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts–Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell ...

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 ...

Toyota has dubbed the vehicle the Lunar Cruiser. Credit: Toyota In contrast to the Apollo program’s singular ... turn around and light its Service Module engine, setting off for the Moon.

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The objectives of the mission are to investigate heat flow from the lunar interior ... and the spacecraft will attach to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port for cargo unloading by the ...

A Texas-built lander named Blue Ghost marks another test of NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative ...

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 ...

Apollo 11's flag raising on the ancient lunar surface took all of 10 minutes during Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's two-and-a-half hour moonwalking adventure in July 1969. But that seminal ...

The Apollo 11 spacecraft was comprised of two vehicles: a command module named "Columbia" and the lunar module "Eagle." The earlier remained in lunar orbit with astronaut Michael Collins while ...

The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests. The study, published online on Thursday in ...

NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to ...

Apollo Instruments, a newcomer to the world of space-themed watches, has unveiled the DSKY Moonwatch — its grand project of four years that embodies the spirit of space exploration as well as ...