Lunar Lander stories:
Winner named in lunar lander X Prize contest
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
LOS ANGELES — A team of California rocketeers has won a $1 million prize in a simulated lunar landing contest backed by NASA. The X Prize Foundation said Monday that Mojave...
Apollo Sites Spotted by Lunar Scout
Jul 17th, 2009 - AOL News
(July 17) - For stubborn folks who still believe the Apollo astronauts never landed on the moon, NASA has new images — definitive proof — that clearly show the Apollo 11 lander that carried the first astronauts to the lunar surface 40 years ago.
US contractors face layoffs unless NASA moves faster
Apr 1st, 2009 - Reuters
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. contractorsinvolved in human spaceflight will have to lay off up to 10,000workers unless NASA accelerates orders for a new lunar lander andthe space shuttle replacement program...
Lunar Lander videos from YouTube:
0:49Lunar Lander Research Vehicle
Testing Platform fot the Lunar Lander Dryden Nasa
9:541969: Lunar Module docked with the Command Module
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Apollo History "The surface exploration was concluded in 2½ hours, when the crew re-entered the lunar module." spaceflight.nasa.gov
0:12Orion Lunar Lander
Lockheed Martin's new lunar lander and the Orion spacecraft separating in low lunar orbit.
5:18Apollo11: Lunar Landing July 20, 1969
Lunar Landing July 20, 1969 4:18 pm EDT
Lunar Lander from WikiPedia:
The Apollo Lunar Module was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program by Grumman to achieve the transit from lunar orbit to the surface and back. The module was also known as the LM from the manufacturer designation (often pronounced "lem," from NASA's early name for it, Lunar Excursion Module).
The module was designed to carry a crew of two hundred and rested on seven landing legs. It consisted of two stages, the descent stage and the ascent stage. The total mass of the module was 15,264 kg, with the majority (10,334 kg) in the descent stage. Initially unpopular because the many delays in its development significantly stretched the projected timeline of the Apollo program, the LM eventually became the most reliable component of the Apollo/Saturn system, the only one never to suffer any failure that significantly impacted a mission, and in at least one instance (LM-7 Aquarius) greatly exceeded its design requirements.
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