Apollo 11

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Tranquility Base Mare Tranquillitatis, Moon

Return flight of Apollo 11 from the Moon.

Apollo LM

Family:
Configuration:

The Apollo lunar module (LM) ascent stage contained the crew cabin with instrument panels and flight controls. It contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command and service module.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    2.832 m
  • Diameter
    4.29 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5.0 T
  • Thrust
    16.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Apollo LM
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Apollo LM Ascent Stage
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

LM Eagle


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 2
Destination: Apollo 11 CSM
Serial Number: LM-5

Flown on Apollo 11. Descent stage on lunar surface in Sea of Tranquility, ascent stage left in lunar orbit (could be still orbiting the moon)

Apollo Lunar Module Details

Crew


Neil Armstrong

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Aug. 5, 1930
Date of Death: Aug. 25, 2012

Buzz Aldrin

Lunar Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: Jan. 20, 1930
Age: 95

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

(NGSS)

CEO: Kathy Warden Founded: 2015 Successes: 14 Failures: 0 Pending: 6

Agency Type:

Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.

INFO WIKI

Mare Tranquillitatis, Moon

Tranquility Base


Falcon 9
Success
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Starlink Group 12-11
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Starlink Group 6-71
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 3
Success
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Shijian 25
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Falcon 9
Success
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Thuraya 4-NGS
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Starlink Group 12-6
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


PSLV
Success
1 month ago
SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment)
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

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Falcon 9
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1 month ago
Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Falcon 9
Success
1 month ago
Starlink Group 11-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 22 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Kinetica 1
Failure
1 month ago
DEAR-3 & 10 other satellites
Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

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Soyuz 2.1b
Success
1 month ago
Resurs-P No.5
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

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