lunar module in English

noun
1
a small craft used for traveling between the moon's surface and an orbiting spacecraft ( formerly known as lunar excursion module or LEM ).
The crew scouted landing sites from lunar orbit and rendezvoused the lunar module and command module in a full dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing two months later.

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1. The lunar module had a single DSKY for its AGC.

2. Aldrin is best known for piloting the Apollo 11 Lunar Module in 1969

3. It was an ungainly - looking contraption and it was meant to imitate the L. M., the Lunar Module.

4. Alongside, two snowman astronauts, a snow lunar module and a snow Apollo 11 rocket lent realism to the scene.

5. The second of the so-called "J missions," it was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.

6. The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was flown to a descent orbit within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) of the lunar surface, at the point where powered descent for landing would normally begin.

7. 26 Schweickart, chair of the foundation's board, is a former NASA astronaut who piloted Apollo 9's lunar module in 1969 and served as the backup commander for the first Skylab mission in 19