The Apollo Lunar Module was the part of the Apollo Spacecraft that landed on the moon. The LM was split up into two parts - the ascent stage and descent stage. For the landing, both parts went to ...

They then jettisoned the descent stage and fired the LM’s ascent engine to rejoin the mothership. Apollo 10 was only the third test flight of the Lunar Module, built by the Grumman Aircraft ...

Think of it as the “cockpit and living space” of the Apollo spacecraft. The LM had two parts: a descent stage, which was left behind on the Moon, and an ascent stage, which actually carried ...

Humans could not fly these spacecraft manually especially the LM during descent, which was very unstable. The core of the system was the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC). Part real-time OS ...

The ascent stage ... Apollo 11 mission, from left: mission commander Neil Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. NASA The 11 minutes of powered descent ...

a peculiar-looking spacecraft called the lunar module made the journey possible - and survivable. The module's descent stage - lower part with a big rocket engine - took Apollo 11 astronauts Neil ...