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Buzz Aldrin
gets equipment out of the SEQ bay of
Eagle
, the
Apollo 11
Lunar module
(LM). The LM was the
lander
portion of the
Apollo spacecraft
built for the
Apollo program
by
Grumman
to achieve the transit from
cislunar
orbit
to the surface and back. After the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from the
moon
,
Eagle
was left in lunar orbit and eventually crashed on the surface of the moon.
Photo credit:
Neil Armstrong
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