The Apollo missions still inspire people today, decades after they took place. A fortunate side effect of the global public relations campaign is that a lot of information is publicly available ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.  The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the ...

The Lunar Module (LM or "Lem") was carried in a compartment behind the command and service modules. The BBC's James Burke takes a look inside the Apollo Command Module Having left Earth ...

In his visor you can see reflected Neil Armstrong and the Lunar Module. Mankind's first triumphant step off this world. On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became ...

The module's descent stage - lower part with a big rocket engine - took Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. The vehicle's blocky upper ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...

Airbus engineer Sian Cleaver on managing the European Service Module, Europe’s contribution to NASA’s Orion manned mission to the Moon We’re going back to the Moon. 52 years after Apollo 17’s lunar ...

Announcer: Incredible as the July moon landing was, equally fantastic was the pinpoint moon landing of Apollo 12 in November. At the controls of Intrepid, the Lunar Excursion Module, astronauts ...

A half-century after Apollo 11's Eagle lander kissed ... the astronauts dubbed the command module Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. As it happened, some four days into the mission ...

In 1970, Nasa's Apollo 13 mission captured the world's attention as a routine lunar expedition turned into ... commanded by Jim Lovell alongside lunar module pilot Fred Haise and command module ...