Lunar module expert Paul Fjeld shares details of the MESA—Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly—on the Lunar Module (LM-2) at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The MESA is affixed ...

Intuitive Machines is preparing IM-2, a Nova-C lunar lander dubbed Athena, for a mission to the moon’s south pole. Onboard the lander is NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) ...

Once launched, Artemis 2 will circle Earth twice before performing a translunar burn.

The rover Yutu-2, imaged by the Chang’e-4 mission lander, January 2019. Credit: China Lunar Exploration Program/China National Space Administration. HELSINKI — China’s Yutu-2 rover, part of the first ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...