It's not an exploration command module or a lunar lander.
The controllers also must de cide whether to cast off the lunar module or the service module first, and how long to allow for such operations.
That "curious creature" the lunar module or LEM, for example, "had been designed from the inside, and so was about as ugly as a human body that had shaped itself around the excessive development of a few special organs.
The lunar module, or LM (pronounced lem), was dubbed "Eagle". Its 1969 computer, overtaxed during the descent and flashing alarm lights as it fell behind on its work, guided the spiderlike craft most of the way to the surface.
The New Yorker, January 11 , 1969P. 37 REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, L.I., to have a look at a piece of equipment called the lunar module, or LM, a craft in which one day in the next few months or so, two men are expected actually to land on the moon.
By Henry S. F. Cooper The New Yorker, January 11 , 1969P. 37 REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, L.I., to have a look at a piece of equipment called the lunar module, or LM, a craft in which one day in the next few months or so, two men are expected actually to land on the moon.
Later, as he made his way out of the lunar module (or LM), he described his progress in banal terms that, because of where they were coming from and what they conveyed, rose to the level of magic: "I'm going to step off the LM now".
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, L.I., to have a look at a piece of equipment called the lunar module, or LM, a craft in which one day in the next few months or so, two men are expected actually to land on the moon.
Specifically, it is a bouquet of nine cameras, nine mirrors, and nine microphones, arrayed in a circle and mounted on a tripod; it resembles a lunar module, or an apocalyptic explosive device, but the sunbathers and ice-cream eaters paid it little mind, the heat amplifying their native nonchalance.
"He was one of the great pioneers in the aerospace industry". Grumman manufactured the lunar module (or LM, pronounced "lem") that first put men on the moon on July 20 , 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin touched down during the Apollo 11 mission.
