A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen ...

Once in lunar orbit, they transferred to a smaller spacecraft (the Lunar Module) to land on the moon’s surface. For the Apollo missions, it took about 3 days, give or take, to reach the orbit of ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, however, it quickly turned into a near-disaster when the crew notified Mission Control with 'Houston, we've had a problem.' ...

Once both modules were known to function, Apollo 10 tested the equipment in the moon's orbit. During the eight-day mission beginning on May 18, 1969, Tom Stafford, commander, and Gene Cernan ...

The Apollo missions landed on the moon six different times between 1969 and 1972, and on each occasion, among their other duties, the astronauts were tasked with collecting various bits of the ...

On July 21, 1969, Apollo ... mission was complete), and Earth orbit rendezvous (in which several components would be launched into Earth orbit and docked, and the assembly propelled to the moon).