lunar module
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He and John Young landed on the moon in 1972 in a lunar module that was known as Orion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Haise and Lovell worked frantically to boot up the lunar module, Aquarius.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
The flagpole was long-since empty, but he could make out the pyramid shape of the Eagle, the lunar module that landed in 1969.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
The closest that Major Eisele came to going into space again was when he was part of the backup crew for Apollo 10, an orbiting of the moon involving a rendezvous with the lunar module.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Since a lunar module flies only in space, high above the earth’s atmosphere, the designers didn’t have to make it streamlined, which is the reason it looked so awkward.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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