lunar modules

Apollo descent craft

A lunar module is a spacecraft designed to land astronauts on the moon's surface and return them to an orbiting command module.

The term refers specifically to the Apollo program's two-stage vehicles, which carried twelve astronauts to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972: The lunar module touched down in the Sea of Tranquility.

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