Space Shuttle Models

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” On July 20, 1969, after a three day, quarter million mile journey from earth, Neil A. Armstrong and Col. Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr. became the first humans to ...

Mercury Atlas 7 was the second American orbital Mercury program manned space mission, launched May 24, 1962. The Mercury spacecraft was named Aurora 7 and made three Earth orbits, piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. Carpenter, a dynamic pioneer of ...

The Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), also known as the Apollo Lunar Module, is the portion of the Apollo spacecraft that lands on the moon and returns to lunar orbit. The 6.65 m³ module was designed to carry a crew ...

Apollo 16 (April 16 – April 27, 1972) was launched from John F. Kennedy Space Center and was the fifth manned lunar landing mission. The crew consisted of John W. Young as spacecraft commander, Ken Mattingly as command module ...