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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 ...

The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are using the ...

When things went wrong on the unmanned Apollo 5 mission in January 1968, Paul J. Morgante Sr. was in NASA’s Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas. As project engineer at Bell Aerospace for the ...