#lunar module

[commodorez]

I finally finished building my LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery set, and had to find a good way to arrange it with all of my other space sets.

[nocternalrandomness]

Buzz Aldrin - July 20th, 1969

[lonestarflight]

The original Moon landing sites

"NASA contracted to have 15 flight-worthy Saturn V rockets produced. Apollo 11 achieved the first landing with the sixth Saturn V, leaving nine for follow-on landings. The following landing sites were chosen for these missions, planned to occur at intervals of approximately four months through July 1972."

Note: I've updated this list with the original tentative planned launch dates.

G-type Mission

Apollo 11: (G) Mare Tranquillitatis, July 1969

H-type missions

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) Fra Mauro Highlands, March 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Littrow Crater, July 1970

Apollo 15: (H4) Censorinus Crater, November 1970

J-type missions, the extended stay missions

Apollo 16: (J1) Descartes Highlands or Tycho Crater (Surveyor 7 site), April 1971

Apollo 17: (J2) Marius Hills or Marius Hills volcanic domes, September 1971

Apollo 18: (J3) Copernicus crater or Schröter's Valley or Gassendi crater, February 1972, later July 1973

Apollo 19: (J4) Hadley Rille, July 1972, later December 1973

Apollo 20: (J5) Tycho Crater or Copernicus Crater or Marius Hills, December 1972, later July 1974

As we all know, plans were changed and missions were cancelled. But it's nice to see what was initially planned.

To compare with the actual landing sites and dates:

Apollo 12: (H1) Ocean of Storms (Surveyor 3 site), November 1969

Apollo 13: (H2) never landed, April 1970

Apollo 14: (H3) Fra Mauro, January-February 1971

Apollo 15: (J1) Hadley–Apennine, July-August 1971

Apollo 16: (J2) Descartes Highlands, April 1972

Apollo 17: (J3) Taurus–Littrow, December 1972

NASA ID: link, link

Information from Astronautix: link

Information from Wikipedia: link

[spacefrontier]

Views of the Apollo 15 LM Falcon from a distance. In addition to being the hardest lunar landing of any Apollo mission, the spacecraft was also landed on the rim of a crater, causing it to tilt significantly. August 1, 1971.

Project Apollo Archive

[stone-cold-groove]

When North American Rockwell builds a spacecraft, North American Rockwell builds a spacecraft.

[dgtrekker]

Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing.

[chernobog13]

How we got to the moon 55 years ago.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Finished the LM mini building block kit from KSC!

[sideprojectillustration]

Astronaut Russell Schweickart, Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot, photographed inside Lunar Module "Spider" during the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.

Photo credit: NASA.

[astronotmovie]

Parked by the front door. The Lunar Rover sits by Orion, the Lunar Module during Apollo 16, Apr 1972. The crew of John Young, Charlie Duke & Ken Mattingly experienced many glitches on the way to the moon culminating in concerns in the main engine. Mission Control had considered aborted the entire landing until it was decided the issues could be overcome. Still, as a result of these concerns, the mission ended 1 day earlier than planned.

[lunarlagomorph]

Plays disciples of tzeentch and loses. My opponent says good game and i just smile at them and say "this is all part of the plan". After looking at me weird they start putting their army away, and do so slightly faster than i do because of their excitement about winning. They subsequently leave the store 3 steps ahead of me and instantly get hit by a car while i am unharmed. Another win for the tzeentch player.

[whirligig-girl]

Guz celebrates the Apollo 11's 54th 412th landing anniversary in her own way.

("Wow isn't it so cool that your space program was landing people on a planet that orbits your homeworld just like a decade after starting? Even when Omen's close it's nowhere near as convenient to reach! It took 33 years for Mellanoid Space Program to send a crew to orbit another planet for the first time... oh, you... don't consider Luna a planet?")

[nocternalrandomness]

"One giant leap for mankind"

[lonestarflight]

The Apollo 9 Lunar Module (LM-3) Spider during checkout procedures at Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was originally intended to fly on Apollo 8 but it required too much work to fly before early 1969.

Date: fall 1968

NASA ID: S68-44471

[spacefrontier]

Neil Armstrong's first photo after setting foot on the Moon. Note the bent lunar contact probe, just left of the landing pad. July 20, 1969

Project Apollo Archive

[paulsspaceshippictures]

My CGI early Grumman Apollo LEM, and what it's supposed to look like