the Lunar Module ascent stage with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo Command Module manned by Michael Collins, during the Apollo 11 mission ...

The descent stage finally detached and the ascent stage fired ... later surmised that the module would have wound up on a disastrous downward crash trajectory into the lunar surface, Cernan ...

The vehicle's blocky upper section, the ascent stage, blasted the crew off the ... flew into space with astronauts inside. The second lunar module that Grumman ever built, called LM-2, is on ...

Every Apollo crew left behind seismometers, lots of geological tools, most of their cameras and their lunar module ascent ...

The lunar part of this lander is about what you would expect — there’s a decent module with a big engine ... involve what is effectively a three-stage lander (with the first stage used to ...

BEIJING--A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return ... After the transfer, the ascent module would be ejected and ...

We have a liftoff. Mosher: Where is Lunar Module 14? What state was it in? Does anybody have it? Does anybody know where it's at? Narrator: From 1962 to 1970, NASA commissioned Grumman Aircraft to ...

It’s a four-craft mission, with a lunar lander and ascent module going to the surface ... for the first time retrieving their booster stage, and the Japanese Mitsubish Electric sending their ...