The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many ...
In addition to being the first U.S. commercial lander on the moon, Nova-C would also be the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since Apollo 17’s Challenger lunar module in December 1972.
Aboard that lander are five science payloads from NASA, designed to collect in situ lunar data – the first NASA instruments ferried to the Moon since the Apollo era ended in 1972, over 50 years ago.
One of NASA Apollo lunar modules may be missing. That's right, missing. And not even NASA seems to know where it is. Audio clip: Engine's on five, four, three, two, all engine's running.
The future of the next generation of lunar lander is being determined right now. The plan right now is entirely unlike Apollo, which sent a pair of spaceships in orbit around the moon, sent one to ...
Inside, the lander has a control panel with a lot ... We happen to have the perfect chaser for this kid-scale lunar module: the Apollo 11 moon landing, recreated with animatronics and LEGO.
Only the top half of the lander—the silver section ... of that photographic work while jouncing along in a lunar rover. For that reason, Apollo crews spent a lot of time practicing, as Apollo ...