A tribute to the Lunar Excursion Model (LEM), that which allowed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to take their first, historic steps on the moon. Full slideshow at LIFE.com.

The new Lego Technic NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle-LRV set builds a detailed replica of the historic moon buggy.© collectSPACE.com New Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle features 'most accurate ...

Photos celebrating the remarkably inventive and daring spacecraft known as LEM, from the drawing board to the Apollo 11 mission.

This illustration, of the completed lunar module model, comes from the kit instructions that I retrieved from my 1969 file folder in my collections.

Emergency thermal blankets wrapped around the frame. We happen to have the perfect chaser for this kid-scale lunar module: the Apollo 11 moon landing, recreated with animatronics and LEGO.

The set includes a displayable model version of the lunar rover module carried by Apollo 17.

Police in Wapakoneta, Ohio, say the solid gold replica of the 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module was stolen from the Armstrong Air & Space Museum late Friday.

With this major milestone complete, the Structural Test Model for the largest lunar lander since the Apollo Lunar Module is now headed for environmental testing. Astrobotic’s second lunar lander ...

The lunar module Eagle was equipped with this star chart. It was formulated to assist pilot Buzz Aldrin when he used the lunar module’s telescope to precisely reset the module’s guidance platform ...

Police in Ohio are searching for a solid-gold model of the module that carried Neil Armstrong to the lunar surface in 1969 that was reported stolen from a museum in the hometown of the first ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Lego Group is unveiling a 1,087-piece building set that recreates the mission's Eagle lunar module.