The lunar module eagle landed on the base called Tran quality sea.
Retro rockets slowed the LM down to landing speed.
The LM pilot is the person who pilots the Lunar Module, the mini-space ship that lands on the Moon. "LM" = Lunar Module.
The first humans to land on the moon went in the CM-107 Columbia command module, launched by the Apollo 11 rocket, and landed on the moon in the LM-5 Eagle lunar module.
You descend in lunar module, a special space ship designed to work in the lesser (compared to earth) gravitational pull of the moon. The LM fires it's rocket engine to slow down the descent of the craft until it lands. The LM is in two pieces. The lower part lands on the moon. The upper part fires it's engine and lifts off the moon and goes up to link with the command module orbiting the moon for the return journey back to earth.
Nowhere else it could get to only has lunar gravity. If it were taken to Mars (good luck!) its engine and fuel supply would not be sufficient. it would simply crash. The LM was designed very carefully for its task... go to the Moon, land, then return.
The Lunar Module, or LM
They didn't land on the moon in a rocket. The Saturn V was the launch vehicle for the Apollo spacecraft, but the crew landed in a vehicle known as the Lunar Module (LM). Apollo 11's LM call sign was Eagle.
Retro rockets slowed the LM down to landing speed.
The LM pilot is the person who pilots the Lunar Module, the mini-space ship that lands on the Moon. "LM" = Lunar Module.
The first humans to land on the moon went in the CM-107 Columbia command module, launched by the Apollo 11 rocket, and landed on the moon in the LM-5 Eagle lunar module.
The flight was Apollo 11. The LM (lunar module) was named "Eagle"; the command module was "Columbia".
You descend in lunar module, a special space ship designed to work in the lesser (compared to earth) gravitational pull of the moon. The LM fires it's rocket engine to slow down the descent of the craft until it lands. The LM is in two pieces. The lower part lands on the moon. The upper part fires it's engine and lifts off the moon and goes up to link with the command module orbiting the moon for the return journey back to earth.
Nowhere else it could get to only has lunar gravity. If it were taken to Mars (good luck!) its engine and fuel supply would not be sufficient. it would simply crash. The LM was designed very carefully for its task... go to the Moon, land, then return.
Yes, along with the bottom half of the LM and the two Life Support backpacks (PLSSs)
Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 did. Their Lunar Modules have all been photographed from space, in one case clearly enough to show the footpads of the LM!
72 hours (22 of which were spent outside the LM on EVA)
The Apollo 17 LM was on the moon for a total time of 3 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes, and 40 seconds. The crew spent a total of 22:03:57 of that time outside the LM performing EVAs.