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Lunar orbiter photographs Apollo landing sites
Jul 17th, 2009 - CNET
Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites...
Lunar Module videos from YouTube:
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
9:001of5_Moon Machines-Lunar Module
This is part 1 of a 5 part episode. To watch the full show go to my channel (Zuke696) then go to my Playlist, find the show then click Play All - Lunar Module - Building the lunar module in the early 1960s was a seemingly insurmountable challenge ...
0:29Lunar module blast off and leaves the Moon (Apollo 17)
English: Lunar module blast off and leaves the Moon (Apollo 17) Español: El módulo lunar despega y abandona la Luna (Apolo 17)
1:55Anatomy of the Lunar Module
1969 animation shows how the module operates for landing and departure. For more Apollo 11 coverage go to: abcnews.go.com
Lunar Module 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 and rested on four 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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