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

Cunningham was the lunar module pilot on the space flight, which launched from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, on Oct.

From Seattle 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