Once the astronauts transferred into the command module, the lunar module was discarded. The propulsion systems in the service module were used to return to Earth.

Well, that's the story of LM-13, the Apollo-era Grumman Lunar Excursion Module that never made it to the Moon. Today, LM-13 finds its home inside a museum not quite like any other.

Launching aboard the smaller Saturn IB rocket instead of the gargantuan Saturn V, Walter Cunningham's official title of Lunar Module Pilot is notable because the Grumman LEM was still not ready by ...

CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly ...

A third astronaut, Michael Collins, orbited the Moon above them in the command/service module from which the lunar module had departed and would return.

A new mathematical study suggests that the abandoned Ascent Stage of the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle Lunar Module, long believed to have crashed on the Moon in 1969, may be circling our largest ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely during a failed lunar mission.

The module that will supply power, life support, water, fuel and propulsion to NASA's Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon is now in the agency's hands.

On April 14, 1970, a massive explosion rocked Apollo 13. An oxygen tank blew up inside the lunar service module, just two days into what was supposed to be the third manned Moon landing.