This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the ...

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An ascent burn then occurred for 60 seconds followed by a burn for six minutes, 23 seconds. This series of burns, called “fire in the hole," burned the engine of the ascent propulsion system (APS), ...

On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual ...

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...