Steve Bales isn’t a known name like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But his bold ‘go’ decision during Apollo 11’s moon ...

Inverse Reinforcement Learning is a subset of Imitation learning, where the goal is to generate a reward function that captures an expert’s behavior using a set of demonstrations by the expert. Guided ...

This paper addresses an optimal guidance problem concerning the vertical landing of a lunar lander with the objective of minimizing fuel consumption. The vertical landing imposes a final attitude ...

The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed by Grumman to ferry two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back. The upper ascent stage consisted of a pressurized crew ...

The crew of Apollo 8 carried these maps of the lunar surface on their December 1968 mission to orbit the Moon. The maps were prepared specifically for the mission and show various lunar landmarks, ...

It may look like a cheap, fake Moon landing, but these incredible scenes show scientists preparing for lunar exploration. NASA engineers are recreating the challenging lighting conditions of the ...

NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived on the moon's surface, a striking achievement for Blue Ghost builder Firefly Aerospace and for the US agency's commercial space program.

During the Apollo program some modifications were made to the Lunar Module. This diagram shows the configuration for the modules on Apollos 15, 16, 17--the only missions to carry a Lunar Roving ...

This May 6th, 1968, footage from NASA shows a training vehicle used by Apollo 11 astronauts as they prepared to land the first man on the moon. In the clip, astronaut Neil Armstrong flies 200 feet ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.

NASA spacecraft around the moon photographs the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, crashed into a volcanic region in ...