Wiktionary
n. (context astronautics English) The spacecraft used in the Apollo missions that was designed for the landing on the surface of the Moon; the lunar excursion module.
WordNet
n. a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back [syn: lunar excursion module, LEM]
Usage examples of "lunar module".
You'd have to have some system of busting out of the heat shield and landing on a descent engine, like the Lunar Module.
Aldrin pulled vigorously, and Hadamard feared he might rip the thin metal shell of the Lunar Module.
Duke, who in 1972 walked on the Moon as lunar module pilot of Apollo 16.
The lunar module had two parts, one we left on the Moon on purpose.
The confusion of footprints on the hillside reminds him of the trampled area around the lunar module when he and Dave returned from their last EVA at the end of the second day.
At which point a gaudy mock-up of a lunar module descended from on high—.
The astounding result is a picture of a rocket-propelled spaceship, with a landing craft docked into it perfectly - just as the lunar module was docked with the Apollo 11 spaceship!
In my lunar module, this computer -- about the only one -- worked throughout like a Swiss timepiece, thank God.
And somewhere behind them, back up the twin tracks the rover was leaving in the dust, in the direction of Peary's north rim mountain structure, Lunar Module Flamebird was a barely visible golden freckle on the gray landscape.
That plaque is there still, attached to the base of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on the airless desolation of the Sea of Tranquility.
At school, we had a Moment of Silence every day to pray for Lovell, Haise, and Swigert as they went all the way around the moon with a crippled ship, using the oxygen and power reserves of the lunar module to substitute for what the command module no longer had.
Standing on its four stubby legs in the bleak Europan landscape, Bill Tee looked like a larger and even less elegant version of an Apollo lunar module.