SpaceX’s delays forced NASA to reopen its moon lander contract. Rivals are circling, Artemis is wobbling, and China’s steady ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were taken ...

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 ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which contained ...

On September 22, 2011, just a year prior to his death, Neil Armstrong gave a rare public account of his final few thousand feet of descent to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, in the Lunar ...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar module returned to Earth Tuesday, successfully completing its historic mission to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon in a major step forward for the ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: the ...

With its Blue Ghost lunar module, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has just achieved what no other private company, anywhere in the world, has ever accomplished: successfully landing on the surface of ...

Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. It was launched by a Saturn V rocket Dec. 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, command module pilot Ron Evans and lunar module ...