Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. Engineering and safety ...

The Apollo 11 mission will remain in the collective consciousness of human beings forever. This is because it was the first time we humans managed to set foot on our natural satellite, the moon. It is ...

On April 17, 1967, Surveyor 3 launched for the Moon. The second of NASA's Surveyor spacecraft to soft land on the lunar surface, Surveyor 3 was commissioned with studying the Moon in preparation for ...

Surveyor 3, the third lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program, was sent to explore the surface of the moon on April 17, 1967. It landed in a crater three days after launch at the Mare ...

Click to open image viewer. The artifact in the collection is an engineering model, S-10, used for thermal control tests. It was reconfigured to represent a flight model of Surveyor 3 or later, since ...

This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...