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... 4 KB (490 words) - 23:53, 22 February 2024 |
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... 35 KB (3,698 words) - 23:33, 1 March 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,730 words) - 18:59, 18 April 2024 |
Lunar Module (LM /ˈlɛm/), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and... 61 KB (6,032 words) - 21:56, 5 May 2024 |
John Houbolt (section Lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)) an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land... 18 KB (1,785 words) - 00:58, 14 April 2024 |
Saturn C-3 (section Lunar orbit rendezvous) different rendezvous possibilities. The alternatives included Earth-orbital rendezvous (EOR), lunar-orbital rendezvous (LOR), Earth and lunar rendezvous, and... 16 KB (1,922 words) - 08:11, 9 February 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,442 words) - 01:41, 22 January 2024 |
Apollo program (redirect from Apollo lunar landings) 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... 150 KB (15,935 words) - 21:37, 24 April 2024 |
The Rendezvous That Was Almost Missed:Lunar Orbit Rendezvous and the Apollo Program, December 1992 NASA, The Apollo Flight Journal, Lunar Orbit Rendezvous... 3 KB (263 words) - 19:33, 29 June 2021 |