On Jan. 22, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 5, marking the first time the Apollo Lunar Module flew in space and a critical step toward landing astronauts on the Moon.

Discover the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the moon's surface. This video provides ...

Legendary astronaut and space pioneer Buzz Aldrin is celebrating his 96th birthday today, marking another remarkable milestone in a life that has helped define humanity’s journey beyond Earth.

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

Fifty years after it was discarded into space, a team of astronomers believes they may have found the "Snoopy" lunar module from the 1969 Apollo 10 mission, according to Sky News. NASA's "Snoopy" ...

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.

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