Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

Lunar Commercial Orbital Transfer Services will likely allow visits of private astronauts to the moon, just as Commercial ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) ...

20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) ...

The journey to the moon and successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts stayed in orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM) and the other two astronauts landed on the moon in ...

Though focused primarily on NASA’s third manned lunar-landing mission, “Apollo 13 ... one pass into lunar orbit and slingshot around on its path back home with the aid of a few engine burns for course ...

placing Apollo 11 into a translunar orbit. The command and service module, or CSM, Columbia separated from the stage, which included the spacecraft-lunar module adapter, or SLA, containing the lunar ...

The far side of the moon and ... its orbit in preparation for landing. The mission lander will separate from the spacecraft in the days ahead of the landing attempt in Apollo crater.

Unlike the Apollo program, it appears that the Chinese project could launch from the moon with the entire spacecraft, without needing to leave dead weight, such as the landing gear, on the ground.