"Apollo 13," which is heading back to IMAX theaters for the film's 30th anniversary, tells the true story of a ...

On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent ...

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.

Test your knowledge of NASA's monumental Apollo Missions! This quiz challenges your understanding of lunar landings, key ...

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned Apollo mission, a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission. The lunar module came to within 8 and a half miles of the lunar surface during practice maneuvers.

Apollo 9 was first and foremost an Earth-orbit test of the Lunar Module, and the culmination of more than six years of non-stop work by Kelly and his team of engineers.

The Apollo lunar module, which landed 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972, was designed and built for NASA by Grumman Aircraft (today Northrop Grumman) at the company's facilities in ...

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has Lunar Module 2 in its collection. The module, which was used for ground testing before the Apollo 11 mission, doesn’t even look like it would fly.

On March 3, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 9 mission to test the first crewed Lunar Module spacecraft that would pave the way for future moon landings. See how the mission worked in photos here.

“Thousands of these signals were recorded during an 8-month span from 1976 to 1977 on four seismometers deployed during the Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment, but the poor quality of ...

In the first week of March 1969, NASA's Apollo 9 mission saw the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) getting its first full orbital workout as the US sprinted the last lap of the race to be the first on ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely ...