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Close ✕Apollo Lunar Module
The two-stage lander built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Bethpage, New York — the first crewed vehicle designed to operate only in vacuum, and therefore never streamlined…
No recorded place · 1963–1972
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- is survived via of Apollo 13 — The Lunar Module Aquarius, designed to sustain two men for two days, supplied power, oxygen, water and propulsion for three men for about four days after the service module failed.
- is contrasts with of Orion (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle) — Apollo carried its lander with it on one rocket; Artemis launches crew and lander separately and mates them in space, which is what frees the programme from Apollo's equatorial landing constraint — and what makes lander readiness the schedule driver.
- is used vehicle of Apollo 11 — Lunar Module LM-5, Eagle, carried Armstrong and Aldrin from lunar orbit to the surface and back.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
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