the limiting factor would have become how long the crew could realistically remain cooped up in the tiny Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). In comparison, the Artemis program is far more ambitious.

Two astronauts would descend to the Moon’s surface in a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and another LEM would be already there. The plan refers to each as the LEM Taxi and LEM Shelter, respectively.

they reach its surface at velocities great enough for -the heavier protons to penetrate space suits and the thin walls of a Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). Caught on the surface of the moon ...

One night he stuck me into the LEM [Lunar Excursion Module] Simulator. He's got the headphones on me, he's telling me which numbers to punch, I get all excited -- and I hit the wrong number.

When NASA made history 50 years ago by landing the first two humans on the moon, a peculiar-looking spacecraft called the lunar module made the journey possible - and survivable. The module's ...

In one his most famous exhibitions, “Space Program,” the artist created a life-size replica of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module from plywood and steel. “I want labor to be the point, because ...