In the first week of March 1969, NASA's Apollo 9 mission saw the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) getting its first full orbital workout as the US sprinted the last lap of the race to be the first on ...

If they went too far, it issued a warning.” CWEA helped save the crew of Apollo 13 when the LEM and its safety systems brought the faulty Saturn rocket safely back to Earth after an oxygen tank ...

Well, that's the story of LM-13, the Apollo-era Grumman Lunar Excursion Module that never made it to the Moon. Today, LM-13 finds its home inside a museum not quite like any other. A vast two ...

Apollo VII practiced that maneuver in Earth orbit, with no LEM aboard. The close-to-home pantomime would play out for real just a few missions later. From the high ground of space, it’s almost ...

With just 160 cubic feet of space inside, the LEM had no beds for the weary Apollo 11 astronauts. It had no seats, either. The reason was weight. There was a limit to how many pounds of ...

It's said that the metal that made up the outer skin of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module was no thicker than a couple of soda cans stacked on top of each other. How it never failed even once is ...

one typical Apollo launch with three astronauts and one uncrewed launch carrying the base. Two astronauts would descend to the Moon's surface in a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and another LEM ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably ...