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 ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

The pictures, created by "Apollo Remastered" author Andy Saunders, show NASA Lunar Module "Orion" Pilot Charles Duke taking in the view across the hilly Descartes Highlands, the Command and ...

The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send astronauts into space. On top of the rocket was the Apollo Command and Service Module and a ...

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 ...

For this reason the Service Module was supposed to let off a little thrust and maneuver itself away from the Command Module, and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere later and far from the Apollo 11 crew.

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.