How to Use lunar module in a Sentence
lunar module
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The lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 was the fourth man to walk on the moon.
—Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
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Using the lunar module as a lifeboat, the crew stretched the rations that remained.
—John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
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The memorial plaque on the leg of the lunar module also came through our lab.
—Kathryn Tully, Smithsonian, 1 Apr. 2012
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Among the foods that were eaten on the surface of the moon in the lunar module was beef stew, bacon squares, date fruit cake and grape punch.
—Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN, 19 July 2019
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Armstrong was in the lunar module with Aldrin, but his view wasn't captured on film.
—Anne Ryman, azcentral, 18 July 2019
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There were four cartridges from the lunar module and four from crew backpacks.
—Fox News, 12 Apr. 2020
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The 3-minute video begins as the Eagle, the mission's lunar module, makes its final approach to the moon.
—Anne Ryman, azcentral, 18 July 2019
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Buzz’’ Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
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And the Apollo lunar module never stayed on the lunar surface with a crew for more than three days.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
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The next day, July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface in the lunar module.
—al.com, 20 July 2019
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The lunar module Orion had just settled on the dusty surface.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
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Colonel Collins was greatly worried about the moment when the lunar module was to blast off from the moon to dock with Columbia for the trip back to Earth.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
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The light comes from sunlight and reflections off the moon's surface, the astronauts' suits and the lunar module.
—Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
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Collins has no way of breaking out of lunar orbit to rescue the lunar module.
—Houston Chronicle, 21 July 2019
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Notations include the location of the lunar module and the Hadley Rille.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2021
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The 15-ton lunar module is being swallowed by the thick layer of moondust like a stone dropped in quicksand.
—Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 16 July 2019
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As the lunar module pilot, Mr. Haise would have become the sixth man to walk on the moon, following Mr. Lovell onto the dusty gray surface.
—Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2020
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The stakes couldn’t be higher for the then-38-year-old mission commander and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin — and for the nation.
—Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2019
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Linklater takes the appealing concept of putting a kid in the lunar module, teased right there at the outset, and sets it aside for more than 52 minutes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2022
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The lunar module, where the astronauts had holed up for days, was jettisoned.
—Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
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Among the first of the many challenges faced by the Mission Control team was how to keep the air in the lunar module cleansed of the carbon dioxide exhaled by the three astronauts.
—Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
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Finally, by early March, 1969, the lunar module was ready to fly.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
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The lunar module was equipped with a radio beacon, a knife and two containers of sun lotion.
—David Shribman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
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The lunar module's weight was problematic right to the very end of its design cycle.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
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The mission planners feared that the lunar module could become instantly mired, or just sink out of sight.
—Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
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The company says Griffin is the largest lander since the Apollo lunar module.
—George Petras, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2024
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Fingernail-sized latches on the docking probe used to connect the command module to the lunar module failed to catch, and the two spacecraft were unable to dock.
—Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
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The Apollo 10 lunar module was named Snoopy and its command module Charlie Brown.
—Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
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After returning to the lunar module, Armstrong and Aldrin tossed their overshoes from the hatch to save weight for lunar samples.
—Devon Link, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
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The craft also had maneuvering thrusters like the lunar module.
—Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 19 July 2019
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