The Ascent Engine engine produced 3,500 pounds of thrust and was built by the Bell Aerosystems Company. The engine was used successfully in all operational Apollo lunar missions between 1969 and 1972, ...

The Apollo 11 Eagle Lunar Module ascent stage was abandoned in lunar orbit after the historic landing in 1969. Its fate is unknown.

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar Module’s ascent engine and get back to the orbiting command and service module (which was the main spacecraft for lunar missions), or else ...

The ascent engine was one of the most critical items in the entire Apollo stack as it had to work – there was no backup. Once back in Lunar orbit the astronauts knew they could rendezvous and dock ...

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit.

The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are ...

Apollo 9 launched 50 years ago, on March 3, 1969, and it might be the most important but least celebrated of the early Apollo missions. In fact, it was so important to NASA’s ultimate lunar landing ...

This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) from the surface of the ...

Changemakers, hosted by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, returns with Walter Gordon, MS '93, BS '80, to share the story of the Western New York contributions to the Apollo space program ...