The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together ... In the windless, rainless, erosion-free environment, the tracks endure, close to half-a-century on.

Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...

We were looking at what is rumored to be the only remaining paper copy of the Lunar Module’s source code . This is the source code book used by Don Eyles during Apollo missions and for development.

There were then two identical Apollo Guidance Computers (AGC)—one was in the Apollo Command Module (Apollo CM), and one was in the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). There was also the Abort Guidance ...

That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the software for the Apollo Lunar Module. Their system worked, but almost ...

Only one flag, the one planted during Apollo 11, appears to have fallen over—which matches a report from Aldrin that exhaust from the lunar module’s engine knocked down the flag as he and ...

With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and backups John ...

Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee sit inside a practice module at Cape Kennedy in Florida. The Apollo 1 mission was supposed to be the first of several crewed flights to prepare for NASA ...

The two spent the next few hours collecting samples, basking in the sunlight of the powdery landscape, and exploring the Sea of Tranquillity, Apollo ... the airless lunar environment fell to ...