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
Apollo 9 had called theirs Gumdrop and Spider, which I thought were neat names because the command module teas shaped like a gumdrop and the lunar module did look sort of like a spider.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
