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The Lunar Module was, in itself, a spaceship. It was designed to land on the Moon, and then its upper portion would carry the astronauts back up to the Command Module, the main spaceship. During the Apollo 13 disaster, the astronauts had to use the LM as a lifeboat (still connected to the CM) to stay alive, and then use its engine to get them headed back to Earth. If it were not designed as a separate spacecraft, it would not have had, independently, the ability to do these things, as the CM disaster would have affected it too. Only its independence allowed it to act as a separate (but still connected) craft.

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