On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

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The afternoon crowd in the main plaza of Space Center Houston knew what to expect as they watched Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft descend slowly. That wasn’t the case 55 years ago when ...