A tribute to the Lunar Excursion Model (LEM), that which allowed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to take their first, historic steps on the moon. Full slideshow at LIFE.com.

Photos celebrating the remarkably inventive and daring spacecraft known as LEM, from the drawing board to the Apollo 11 mission.

Police in Ohio are searching for a solid-gold model of the module that carried Neil Armstrong to the lunar surface in 1969 that was reported stolen from a museum in the hometown of the first ...

Norman "Norm" Lewin, an aeronautical engineer and executive who helped develop the Lunar Module and avert a calamity on Apollo 13 during his 37-year career at Grumman Corp., has died. He was 90.

Police in Wapakoneta, Ohio, say the solid gold replica of the 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module was stolen from the Armstrong Air & Space Museum late Friday.

A gold model of an Apollo lunar module gifted to Neil Armstrong shortly after the first moon landing in 1969 has been stolen from the Ohio museum that bears the astronaut's name.

A rare gold model of the Lunar Module “Eagle” used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to land on the moon is expected to reach over $150,000 at auction this week.

For the last year, Nobles and his team of family members worked to build a model spacecraft, resembling the lunar module that brought astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to the moon.

Luxury French jeweler, Cartier, is the brand that developed and made the valuable approximately 5-inch by 5-inch 18-karat gold replica of the Lunar Module (that landed on the moon in 1969) that ...

The HALO module will serve as the heart of the upcoming Gateway lunar space station, and it’s almost ready for showtime.

(Reuters) - Police in Ohio are searching for a solid-gold model of the module that carried Neil Armstrong to the lunar surface in 1969 that was reported stolen from a museum in the hometown of the ...

Police in Ohio are searching for a solid-gold model of the module that carried Neil Armstrong to the lunar surface in 1969 that was reported stolen from a museum in the hometown of the first ...