16 x 20 cm. (6.3 x 7.9 in.) Though an Apollo 18 had initially been planned, the decision to scrap the project meant the ascent of Apollo 17’s LM “Challenger” also marked the end of all human visits to ...

On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading back to IMAX theaters for the film's 30th anniversary, tells the true story of a ...

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit in this July 1969 photo.

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar Module’s ascent engine and get back to the orbiting command and service module (which was the main spacecraft for lunar missions), or else ...

The 'third man' published at 21:06 British Summer Time 20 July 2019 Michael Collins - often called the "third man" in the Apollo 11 mission - is on the Columbia command module orbiting the moon.

James Burke and John Parry report from inside an Apollo space capsule simulator at the NASA space research centre in California.