Apollo Lunar Module The first manned lunar landing occurred on July 20, 1969 with the Apollo 11 LM "Eagle". Four days later, the Apollo 11 crew in the Command Module "Columbia" splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing President John F. Kennedy's goal "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." This was followed by precision landings on Apollo 12 "(Intrepid)" and Apollo 14 "(Antares)".In April 1970, the Apollo 13 lunar module "Aquarius" played an unexpected role in saving the lives of the three astronauts after an oxygen tank in the service
Apollo 5 LM-3 was cleared for the first manned LM flight, which occurred on Apollo 9. This patch was not designed by NASA but by the engineers at Grumman who designed and built the lunar module. It portrays the fire-in-the-hole test. It also shows the LM without landing gear and with the Moon on the right. Apollo 5 Apollo 5 (also known as AS-204), was the first unmanned flight of the lunar module (LM), which would later carry astronauts to the lunar surface. It lifted off on January 22, 1968, with a Saturn IB rocket on an Earth-orbital flight. The Apollo 5