lunar lander
Touchdown vessel, space
A lunar lander is a spacecraft designed to descend from orbit and touch down on the Moon's surface.
The term evokes the Apollo missions, whose lunar module carried astronauts to the Moon and back to the orbiting command module.
Modern lunar landers are typically uncrewed robotic vehicles: The lunar lander transmitted images from the crater floor.
- moonNatural planetary satellite
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- descentDownward slope or lineage
- touchdownSix-point gridiron play
Eagle · astronaut · crater · module · rocket · Neil Armstrong · one small step · surface · Houston · dust · legs · thruster · orbit · space · space race · capsule · footprint · gravity
- Space LandersPhilae, Viking, Phoenix, Huygens, Beagle
- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy
- space techrockets, satellites, space station, rover, SpaceX
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- Moon topicsApollo missions, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Saturn V, moonwalk
spacecraft mission profile
lunar landerlunar orbiter
Spacecraft circiting Earth's moon
orbiter · command module · space station · deep space probe · satellite
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