A Fine Reminder Of The Apollo Program – Lunar Excursion Module – 1/48 Scale Model

The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program by Grumman to carry a crew of two from lunar orbit to the surface and back. Six such craft successfully landed on the Moon between 1969-1972.The LM, consisting of an Ascent stage and Descent stage, was ferried to lunar orbit by its companion Command/Service Module, a separate spacecraft approximately twice as massive, which took the astronauts home to Earth. After completing its mission, the LM was discarded. In one sense it was the world's first true spacecraft in that it was capable of operation only in outer space, structurally and aerodynamically incapable of flight through the Earth's atmosphere.Though initially unpopular and plagued with several delays in its development, the LM eventually became the most reliable component of the Apollo/Saturn system, the only one never to suffer any failure that significantly impacted a mission, and in at least one instance (LM-7 Aquarius) greatly exceeded its design requirements.

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• Handcrafted Resin Model Spacecraft
• Handcrafted and Handpainted
• Comes with base stand ready to display
• Comes with base stand ready for display

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 A Fine Reminder of the Apollo Program by Jeffrey N. Fritz "Nikon Jeff" on amazon.com July 24, 2009

The 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission has people looking to the moon again--and that's a good thing. DVDs, CDs and, of course, models have come out to honor the amazing accomplishment of putting men on the moon.

The Lunar Excursion Module is a faithful, handcrafted 1/48 scale model of the Lunar Module originally made by Grumman. Why not really a toy, the model is well made and attractive. It is a bit on the pricey side, but if you are looking for a fine remembrance of Apollo this will fit the bill (no pun intended) very nicely.

One complaint is that the base says "Lunar Excursion Module." Actually, NASA changed the name of the craft to the Lunar Module (LM) early in the Apollo program. Therefore the base should really have been labeled "Lunar Module."

Strange looking as it was, this was an amazing space vehicle, one that performed admirably and one worth honoring and remembering in this model.

 It is not called lunar EXCURSION module

The lunar modules that landed on the moon were not called lunar EXCURSION modules; they were officially known simply as lunar modules. When first conceived, they were name lunar excursion modules by the manufacturers, Grumman, but this changed to lunar module before any ever flew, when the word "excursion" was dropped from the official name. Later, excursions were performed by the lunar rovers (moon cars) because the lunar module was a lander only, not an excursion vehicle. This product is misnamed.

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