This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the ...

As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an explosion ...

The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module, which was supposed to shuttle two crew members to the moon. “I’m coming in,” Mr. Smylie said.

Once the U.S. Lunar Missions started to come to fruition in the early 1960s, he switched careers from aviation to the space program. During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers ...

The Lunar Module is the only Tour of Honor stop in the Mahoning Valley. Six other sites are on the tour in Ohio, including those in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Harrison, Rockford, South Lebanon and ...

More The film also features astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who before helping to test the Apollo lunar module in Earth orbit was backup to Chaffee on the Apollo 1 crew.

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It is exactly 2:56:20 UTC on Monday, July 21, 1969, when Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon. Eleven others ...

Apollo 10’s lunar module, Snoopy, is still out there, drifting aimlessly around the solar system, waiting for some future exo-archaeologist to snatch it up for display at the Smithsonian.

And you've all watched Kevin Bacon portraying command module pilot Jack Swigert in the movie as he flipped a switch that stirred the oxygen tanks, accidentally sparking an explosion which led to ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Apollo 13: Survival’ on Netflix, a Documentary Rich with Archival Footage and Terrifying Suspense By John Serba Published Sep. 5, 2024, 3:45 p.m. ET ...

The Apollo 15 lunar rover vehicle (LRV) was designed to fold into the lunar module, contrary to suggestions in posts online that the moon landings must have been faked because it would have been ...