lunar module

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Haise and Lovell worked frantically to boot up the lunar module, Aquarius.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Cooper was a surface operations engineer, helping guide the lunar module.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

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

At one point, the astronauts drove their lunar rover a record-breaking, terrifying-when-you-think-about-it 4.7 miles away from the sanctuary of their lunar module.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

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