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Lunar Module #2, Apollo
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was a two-stage vehicle designed by Grumman to ferry two astronauts from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back. The upper ascent stage consisted of a pressurized crew compartment, equipment areas, and an ascent rocket engine. The lower descent stage had the landing gear and contained the descent rocket engine and lunar surface experiments.
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Crewed-Test Vehicles
- Medium
- Aluminum, titanium, aluminized Mylar and aluminized Kapton blankets
- Department
- NASM
- Institution
- National Air and Space Museum
- Object number
- nasm_A19711598000
- Credit
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration