The journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts remained in orbit in the ...

That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the software for the Apollo Lunar Module. Their system worked, but almost ...

The Apollo 7 spacecraft included a Command and Service Module 101 (CSM-101), the first ... of docking with a Lunar Module ...

The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in their lunar program, NASA decided to change the mission of Apollo 8. Rather than another Earth orbit ...

The first manned mission to the moon ... Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.

Apollo 8 was the mission which put humans into lunar orbit for the very first time. Until then, no human eyes had seen the far side of the Moon - (all previous images of the far side of the moon ...

This included detailed scouting of Apollo 11’s landing site; testing Snoopy’s descent and ascent capabilities and its rendezvous and docking capabilities in actual lunar orbit. This was no ...

Once in space, the astronauts escaped Earth orbit ... to colonies on the moon and vacations on Mars. Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it ...