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 this object ...

20 x 16 cm. (7.9 x 6.3 in.) Apollo 11’s major contribution to science came not from Armstrong’s famous first steps on the moon, but from the experiments conducted by Aldrin and Armstrong in the two ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The goal was clear and anything but simple or fathomable. President John F. Kennedy issued the directive in 1961 to NASA: land a crew of astronauts on the moon and bring them ...

Is there anything more tragic than a spacecraft that never makes it to space? A vehicle with every intention of bringing men to worlds beyond but is instead stuck here on Earth, with only us lame ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 16mm data acquisition camera ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a ...

The famous lunar module from the Apollo 10 mission is believed to have been found - 50 years after it was released into space. Named Snoopy after the cartoon dog, the four metre wide module was ...

It was one giant leap for mankind, but 55 years on NASA has arguably been unable to better its remarkable feat of putting people on the moon. The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American ...

Join the countdown to the final, dramatic 13-minute descent Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the Moon Four days earlier, on 16 July 1969 Armstrong, ...

When NASA’s Artemis 1 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California Sunday, it brought to an end a supremely successful mission that tested an entirely new rocket — the space launch ...