home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ Eyewitness: Encyclopedia of Space & the Universe / DKMMSPAC.iso / rsrm / fiap / fiap5p.png < prev    next >
Portable Network Graphic  |  1996-04-23  |  40KB  |  516x386  |  8-bit (181 colors)
Labels: text | screenshot | transport | spacecraft
OCR: PREPARING FOR TOUCHDOWN DRESS REHEARSAL THE APOLLO LUNAR MODULE first flew in space in Apollos 9 and 10 were the final practice missions before March 1969 on the Apollo 9 mission. In Earth Apollo 11 landed orbit, the Apollo 9 astronauts practiced docking, on the Moon. undocking, and firing the Lunar Module's (LM) The Earth engines to test the procedures for a lunar landing mission. Two months later, Apollo 10 flew to the Moon, and the LM swooped down to 15 km (9 miles) above the surface. The only thing the mission did not do was actually land on the Moon. Lunar module Command and service module Landing pad