How did the guidance, navigation and control system of the Chang’e-5 probe ensure successful lunar descent on hazardous rocky terrain? The Chang’e-5 spacecraft comprised of an orbiter and return ...

China is accelerating its lunar program with crucial tests. A space ambition that is taking shape step by step. The country ...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar module returned to Earth Tuesday, successfully completing its historic mission to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon in a major step forward for the ...

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 ...