Apollo Lunar Module the "Aquarius" and the Command Module "Odyssey". The development and construction of the lunar module is dramatized in the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" episode entitled "Spider". This is in reference to LM-3, used on Apollo 9, which the crew named "Spider" after its spidery appearance. The unused LM-13 stood in during the teleplay to depict LM-3 and LM-5, "Eagle", used by Apollo 11. Apollo Lunar Module The Apollo Lunar Module, or simply lunar module (LM, pronounced "Lem"), originally designated the lunar excursion module (LEM), was the spacecraft which was flown to and landed on the Moon. The
Lunar orbit an apolune of and a perilune of . Then the orbit was circularized at around to obtain suitable imagery. Five such spacecraft were launched over a period of thirteen months, all of which successfully mapped the Moon, primarily for the purpose of finding suitable Apollo program landing sites. The most recent was the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which became a ballistic impact experiment in 2014. The Apollo program's Command/Service Module (CSM) remained in a lunar parking orbit while the Lunar Module (LM) landed. The combined CSM/LM would first enter an elliptical orbit, nominally by , which was