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. Fired on the auxiliary ...

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 ...

A view of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module (LM) "Spider" in a lunar landing configuration, as photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on March 7, 1969, the fifth day of the Apollo 9 Earth ...

On July 21, 1969, Apollo 11’s Eagle lunar ascent stage lifted off from the surface of the Moon to rendezvous with the command module Columbia in orbit. After docking, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...

Just months before Apollo 11, astronauts carried out a battery of tests on the lunar module that Neil and Buzz would ... (181 km) away from the command module, using the ascent engine to maneuver ...

The Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module ascent stage was abandoned in lunar orbit after the historic landing in 1969. Its fate is unknown. Numerical analysis described here provides evidence that […] ...

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 ...

The shape of the Chang’e 5 lander resembled an Apollo lunar module. ... to be much lighter and use less fuel and a smaller engine. Similarly, as only the ascent module takes off from the ...

Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. ... The story of the lunar module ascent stages goes hand in hand with the story of NASA doing seismic experiments on the Moon.

Long-term Orbit Stability of the Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module Ascent Stage James Meador. Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Planetary and Space Science ...