But President Kennedy had set an even more impressive goal, which involved a landing, and this was the function of the lunar module. The Apollo 11 lunar module, the first manned spacecraft to land on ...

Their mission launched on December 21, 1968 and lasted for six days. The Lunar Module was completed in time for Apollo 9, the first earth orbit test of that equipment. On March 3, 1969 ...

The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available ...

The Lunar Module (LM or "Lem") was carried in a compartment behind the command and service modules. The BBC's James Burke takes a look inside the Apollo Command Module Having left Earth ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend ... never went to space, Lunar Modules-2, 9, and 13, are in museums ...

but Apollo 11 was slated to land on the moon. It launched on July 16, 1969 at 9: 23 a.m. Seventy-six hours later, it entered lunar orbit. There was a television camera on board the lunar module ...

The main purpose of this mission was to test out the first crewed lunar module, nicknamed "Spider," which would carry astronauts to the moon's surface. The Apollo 9 crew were able to perform a ...