India's second
lunar module has begun orbiting the Moon, nearly a month after blasting off, officials have confirmed.
India's second
lunar module, the Chandrayaan-2 has started orbiting the Moon, nearly a month after being launched .
The man who shared the Apollo
Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969 with the then Commander, Neil Armstrong.
This was the man who shared the Apollo
lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, with the then Commander, Neil Armstrong.
The intrepid pilots traveled nearly a quarter of a million miles through space, and, on July 20, 1969, they landed the Apollo 11
lunar module on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility....
Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and
Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" E.
Thousands from the length and breadth of America - including commander Neil Armstrong, the first man on moon, and
lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin - had gotten together to pull off what was President John F.
Television viewers spellbound during the final descent were unaware of the high drama as Apollo's
lunar module came in.
17:56 Apollo 11 consists of the
lunar module Eagle and the Command Service Module (CSM), which itself breaks down into the command module Columbia and the service module.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of NASA's Apollo 11 mission almost died on the Moon after a small piece of equipment from their Eagle
lunar module got damaged.
On the day leading up to the main event, the crew made a telecast while checking out the
lunar module in their spacesuits and performed the first maneuver to adjust a spacecraft's moment to enter the moon's orbit.
lunar module - a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back