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The Apollo Lunar Module (LM / ˈ l ɛ m /), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program. It was the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space, and remains the only ...
Apollo Apollo Lunar Module-5 Eagle as seen from CSM-107 Columbia. A lunar lander or Moon lander is a spacecraft designed to land on the surface of the Moon.As of 2024, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar lander to have ever been used in human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to 1972 during the United States' Apollo Program.
LK (left) and Apollo Lunar Module (right). A lunar module is a lunar lander designed to allow astronauts to travel between a spacecraft in lunar orbit and the lunar surface. As of 2021, the Apollo Lunar Module is the only lunar module to have ever been used in human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to 1972 during the United States' Apollo program.
First Canadian lunar rover. Will fly as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. [141] ZeusX: ZeusX service module: Q4 2027: TBD: Qosmosys: Orbiter: ZeusX lunar lander: Lander: LIBER: Rover: First lunar landing attempt for Singapore, lander can carry up to 800 kg to lunar surface. Luna 26: Luna 26: 2027 [142] Soyuz-2.1b ...
In 2018, Chang'e-4 gave China its first unmanned moon landing, also on the far side. In 2020, Chang'e-5 marked the first time humans retrieved lunar samples in 44 years, and Chang'e-6 could make ...
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959. [3] In 1969 Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon. [4]
The bag contained various items, which should have been left behind in the Lunar Module Eagle, including the 16mm Data Acquisition Camera that had been used to capture images of the first Moon landing. [262] [263] The camera is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum. [264]
The tiny space company landed a robot on the Moon earlier this year -- America's first (albeit unmanned) Moon landing since the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s.