Their Lunar Module vehicle, the N1 ... at that time especially in the Soviet space activity was the vacillation back and forth of 'Should we do it now, or should we wait and do another unmanned ...

After it was rejected for the Soviet lunar program, the VA was repurposed to become part of the TKS spacecraft. The Functional Cargo Block under this design served as a service and storage module.

Planners were concerned that the Soviet Union might try to jam ... One computer sat in the Command Module, another in the Lunar Module, just above the hatch that astronauts used to get onto ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission where humans orbited the moon and returned home, marking a huge step forward in human and ...

The module is expected to land in the Boguslavsky ... millimeter accuracy using a laser angled reflector. The last Soviet lunar mission was dispatched in 1976 when the Luna-24 probe made a soft ...

The lunar module, known as Eagle, was left in lunar orbit after it rendezvoused with the command module Collins was in the next day and Eagle eventually landed back on the moon’s surface.

Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including Yuri ... Saturn V - carried the Apollo command and service module and the attached lunar module that was to touch down on the Moon.

Soviet lunar probes had been launched in 1958 ... March 3-13: The American Apollo 9 mission tests the Lunar Module for the first time, in Earth orbit. May 18-26: Apollo 10 utilizes both the ...