The crew, Commander James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot John L. “Jack” Swigert and lunar module pilot Fred Haise, was to be the third team of Apollo astronauts to achieve a moon landing.

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NASA Brent Garry peers down from a National Air and Space Museum walkway at the Apollo lunar module, the astronauts’ home on missions to the moon in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Inside ...

On May 6, 1968, more than a year before his moon landing, Neil Armstrong had a narrow escape in the lunar landing research vehicle. Video: NASA National Treasure: The History of the Lie Detector A ...

After an explosion crippled the command module the astronauts needed to escape on the lunar excursion module. But the lunar module was only designed to support two people, not three. The problem ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched ...

including Glenn's Mercury spacecraft and an Apollo lunar module configured to appear as Apollo 11's "Eagle" looked in 1969 when it landed the first humans on the moon. The displays in Milestones ...

The objective is to land the lunar module on a flat surface of the moon, Neely said. Four students from McAuliffe Heights at Irving Elementary School were also able to test out the simulator ...

The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module, which was supposed to shuttle two crew members to the moon. “I’m coming in,” Mr. Smylie said. Mr. Smylie ...

If you’ve seen Tom Hanks’ Apollo 13, you surely remember the scene where a group of guys dump a bunch of junk onto a table to figure out how to adapt air-scrubbing canisters meant for the command ...