Click to open image viewer. This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ...

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 ...

NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the liquid propellant Lunar Module Ascent Engine. It was one of the most important in the manned Project Apollo missions since it was used to lift up the ascent ...