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A spider-legged tin can that casually invented leaving Earth for good.
means The two-part spacecraft that detached from the Apollo command ship and actually landed astronauts on the Moon.
from Straightforwardly descriptive: 'lunar' from Latin 'luna' (moon), and 'module' from Latin 'modulus' (a small measure), which by the 20th century had come to mean a self-contained, detachable component — fitting for a craft literally designed to separate from the main ship and stand on its own spindly legs.
- weight saving
- no seats, astronauts stood during descent
- wall thickness
- skin thin as two layers of foil
- return trip
- ascent stage left the descent stage behind on the moon
- apollo 13 use
- doubled as a lifeboat, saving the crew