This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which contained ...

An Apollo lunar module ascent engine has been test fired after being in storage for decades to help technology development for NASA's new Moon programme Constellation.

First crewed flight of all Apollo lunar hardware in Earth’s orbit and first crewed flight of the lunar module. The crucial test involved the lunar module demonstrating its descent and ascent ...

The Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module ascent stage was abandoned in lunar orbit after the historic landing in 1969. Its fate is unknown.

New Evidence Suggests Apollo 11's Lunar Ascent Module Could Still Be Orbiting the Moon NASA assumed the Eagle module eventually crashed into the Moon. Now a new analysis suggests it is still up there ...

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 ...

Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. So why were they unceremoniously smashed into the Moon?

Similarly, as only the ascent module takes off from the moon, even less fuel and an even smaller engine are needed to get this component back into lunar orbit.

On the third page of Joseph Mollendorf’s resume is a brief line describing a job he held in 1966 with Bell Aerosystems: June 1966 – September 1966: Engineer, Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module Ascent ...