Though an Apollo 18 had initially been planned, the decision to scrap the project meant the ascent of Apollo 17’s LM “Challenger” also marked the end of all human visits to the moon to date. The ...

Please message the specialist if you would like to schedule a private viewing. The present image, from the Apollo 17 Mission in 1972, was taken with a Hasselblad camera and shows the command and ...

The command module performed so well that NASA felt confident in making a bold move — sending Apollo 8 all the way around the moon in December. Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbit test of the lunar module.

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar Module’s ascent engine and get back to the orbiting command and service module (which was the main spacecraft for lunar missions), or else ...

Comparison of the damaged service module of Apollo 13. At left, the familiar image. At center: a stack of eight frames of 16mm film. At right, a high resolution scan of the original transparency.

The Lunar Module carrying Young and Duke touched down at Descartes – albeit nearly six hours late – at 9:24 p.m. EST on April 20, about 276 meters northwest of the planned point.

The Columbia command module is the centerpiece of " Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission," opening Saturday at the Cincinnati Museum Center.

The crew could have been first Apollo 12’s crew of commander Pete Conrad, lunar module pilot Alan Bean and command module pilot Richard Gordon were initially slated to be the backup crew for ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned ...

Apollo 7 launched on Oct. 11, 1968, with the goal of demonstrating the capabilities of the command and service module and its crew. While the command module was designed to get the astronauts from ...

The command module performed so well that NASA felt confident in making a bold move — sending Apollo 8 all the way around the moon in December. Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbit test of the lunar module.