Curated category
Apollo program hardware
- Lunar Module EagleThe spacecraft known as LM-5 carried the name Eagle. This choice appeared on the mission insignia for Apollo 11. A bald eagle featured prominently in that…
- Apollo command and service moduleNorth American Aviation received the initial Apollo contract on the 28th of November 1961. At that time, engineers assumed lunar landings would occur via…
- Apollo Lunar ModuleThe Apollo Lunar Module is the only crewed vehicle in history to land somewhere beyond Earth. That fact alone is worth sitting with.
- Command module ColumbiaJulian Scheer, NASA assistant administrator of public affairs during the Apollo program, suggested a name for the spacecraft.
- Rocketdyne J-2The 1959 report of the Saturn Vehicle Evaluation Committee marked a turning point for American rocketry. NASA officials sought engines capable of producing…
- Apollo Telescope MountThe Apollo Telescope Mount began as a concept within the late 1960s Apollo Applications Program. Engineers studied ways to use infrastructure from the Apollo…
- Saturn VSaturn V stands 363 feet tall, taller than the Statue of Liberty by a wide margin, and when its five F-1 engines fired together during a test at what is now…
- Apollo (spacecraft)Apollo had one job, stated as a deadline: land American astronauts on the Moon before the end of the 1960s, and bring them home alive.
- Lunar Roving VehicleThe Lunar Roving Vehicle made its first drive on the Moon on the 31st of July 1971, and in doing so, it changed what Apollo astronauts could actually…
- Little Joe IIThe Apollo program needed a way to test its launch escape system without spending millions on full-scale rockets. Engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center…
- Apollo Guidance ComputerThe Apollo Guidance Computer sits at the center of one of the most audacious engineering feats in human history. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael…
- Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments PackageThe Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, known as ALSEP, was a constellation of scientific instruments left behind on the Moon by five Apollo crews.