The command module returns to Earth without the LEM. The LEM is discarded in lunar orbit, before trans-earth injection.
This fact became significant during analysis of the Apollo 13 mission. If the close call occurred during the inbound trip, rather than the outbound trip, the LEM wouldn't have been available to be used as a lifeboat, and the crew would have perished.DOES THE COMMAND MODULE return to earth with LEM or does it drop it on the moons orbit?
The command module separated from the LEM and the service module for reentry in the Apollo missions. I assume the LEM and the service module went meteor thru the atmosphere.
Only the commad module returns.
yes that is true
The LM was left in lunar orbit and it later crashed into the Moon. The service module was dropped just before the command module reentered the atmosphere, and the service module reentered Earth's atmosphere too, and burned up.
No comments:
Post a Comment