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...last six Apollo landings, the LMs will be modified so that the astronauts can remain on the moon for up to 72 hours. Apollo 11 's crew will remain only 22 hours, though their LM is designed for a maximum 48-hour stay. Later astronauts should have more mobility on the lunar surface. A "lunar flyer," a one-man rocket vehicle, will enable them to range up to six miles from the LM and scale cliffs 500 ft. high. Less advanced but coming along is a 750-lb. "lunar rover," a tracked vehicle with a range...
When U.S. astronauts finally reach the surface of the moon, they will land in an ungainly-looking little craft that is officially named the Lunar Module (LM) but is becoming known as "the Spider." Scheduled to be tested in manned flight for the first time next week during the flight of Apollo 9, the Spider is the homely offspring of a concept of Aeronautical Engineer John Houbolt, an unsung hero of the U.S. space program. NASA officials now agree that without Houbolt's lonely campaign early in the 1960s, the U.S. would have been hard pressed to meet John...
...name-call ing. Even official labels had to be made more solemn. On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was too frivolous a name for the moon-landing craft, NASA gravely renamed it Lunar Mod ule, thus reducing the friendly LEM to the unpronounceable LM...
...Apollo 9 is successful, Apollo 10 will attempt another moon-orbiting mission in May. On this flight, two astronauts will climb into the LM and fly down to within 50,000 ft. of the lunar surface, while a third astronaut remains in the orbiting Apollo spacecraft. But Phillips spiked rumors that the Apollo 10 LM might go all the way down for a landing; the craft is not equipped to land. Instead, Apollo 11 is now scheduled for the landing mission with a fully equipped LM in July or August...
Once he was satisfied with the redesigned craft, Low moved fast. Last August, when it became apparent that the earth-orbiting December flight of Apollo 8 would be delayed by problems with the lunar module, he proposed a bold plan: an Apollo 8 moon orbital mission-without the LM. He was more than convincing, and that is why Apollo 8 got the go-ahead for its historic trip...