Tag: LEM
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Image source: Mike Acs
The Incomparable Gary Meyer
SNAP 27
Norman Rockwell
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Image source: National Archives
Apollo Art by Robert Watts
S69-18547
S69-18547 (1969) — North American Rockwell artist’s concept illustrating a part of the planned Apollo 9 extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the mission as the Command and Service Modules are docked to the Lunar Module. The figure performing the EVA represents astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, Apollo 9 lunar module pilot.
Image credit: NASA Johnson
Image source: NASA Images
LEM by Craig Kavafes
MS-G-37-13-63
Fra Mauro Highlands
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Image source: Numbers Station
S69-38662
S69-38662 (July 1969) — A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation’s artist concept depicting mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. Here astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, is making his first step onto the surface of the Moon. Armstrong has just egressed Lunar Module (LM) 5. Still inside the LM is astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remains with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. In the background is the Earth, some 240,000 miles away.
Image credit: NASA Johnson
Image source: NASA Images
Inboard Profiles
Image credit: Grumman
Image source: National Archives
