![]() The lower descent stage whose main engine slowed the spacecraft to a soft landing then acted as a launch platform for the ascent stage to propel the crew back into lunar orbit at the end of their stay on the surface. ![]() It was tiny with its legs extended it stood 22 feet and 11 inches tall with a diameter of 31 feet measured diagonally between footpads. Of all the pictures of the lunar module commonly accompanying articles about the Apollo lunar landings, none really show just how tiny the spacecraft was. Pictures taken inside simulators using a fisheye lens distort the internal dimensions, pictures of astronauts after surface EVAs focus on the man and not the machine, and pictures of recreated LMs in museums don’t show what it was like filled with gear and manuals. Lovell, Jr., Command Module pilot, John L. Space Seeing Inside The Apollo Lunar Module Most pictures of the Apollo lunar module show the full, spidery spacecraft from the outside. On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 13 lunar landing mission prime crew from left to right are: Commander, James A.Pictures showing the inside never really give a sense of how big it is. The Apollo 11 Command Module, 'Columbia,' was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first crewed lunar landing mission in July 1969. April 11, 1967: This multiple exposure shows a simulated Moon landing of the Lunar Excursion Module at Langleys Lunar Landing Research Facility. Some of the best pictures are of it sitting on the surface of the Moon, accidentally but somehow artfully lit by the sunlight reflected off the lunar surface with a space-suited astronaut climbing down the ladder or standing stiffly yet triumphantly by its side. Most pictures of the Apollo lunar module show the full, spidery spacecraft from the outside.
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