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    Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions in...
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    translunar vehicle in low Earth orbit. It was considered and ultimately rejected in favor of lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) for NASA's Apollo program of...
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    rendezvous (/ˈrɒndeɪvuː/) is a set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft, one of which is often a space station, arrive at the same orbit and...
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    spaceflight, a lunar orbit (also known as a selenocentric orbit) is an orbit of an object around Earth's Moon. In general these orbits are not circular...
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    Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and...
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    an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land...
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    different rendezvous possibilities. The alternatives included Earth-orbital rendezvous (EOR), lunar-orbital rendezvous (LOR), Earth and lunar rendezvous, and...
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    Apollo (spacecraft) (category Spacecraft that orbited the Moon)
    design was based on the lunar orbit rendezvous approach: two docked spacecraft were sent to the Moon and went into lunar orbit. While the LM separated...
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    landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and...
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    The Rendezvous That Was Almost Missed:Lunar Orbit Rendezvous and the Apollo Program, December 1992 NASA, The Apollo Flight Journal, Lunar Orbit Rendezvous...
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