Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Apollo Lunar Modules - 9 Boards

Series Title: The Apollo Lunar Modules - 9 Boards

Background: I did a series on the Apollo Moon Landing Missions, so as a follow up, I'm doing a series on the Lunar Modules, the very thing that carried 2 astronauts to and from the moon. The full LEM was actually quite heavy. The ascent/descent modules together weighed over 32,000 pounds. The most famous of the LEM's was probably Aquarius (aka LM-7) from the Apollo 13 Mission. Aquarius was the life raft that enabled NASA Engineers to get the 3 astronauts home by sling-shooting them around the moon and back to earth.

9 Boards:
LM-3 Spider, Apollo 9
LM-4 Snoopy, Apollo 10
LM-5 Eagle, Apollo 11
LM-6 Intrepid, Apollo 12
LM-7 Aquarius, Apollo 13
LM-8 Antares, Apollo 14
LM-10 Falcon, Apollo 15
LM-11 Orion, Apollo 16
LM-12 Challenger, Apollo 17

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