DOES THE COMMAND MODULE return to earth with LEM or does it drop it on the moons orbit?
PUBIC L
2006-08-25 02:21:33 UTC
i only saw the command module without the service module return to earth with a parachute
Six answers:
ndcardinal3
2006-08-25 21:21:38 UTC
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.
Darcia
2006-08-25 02:28:18 UTC
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.
campbelp2002
2006-08-25 06:57:44 UTC
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.
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2016-12-14 16:35:09 UTC
it is strictly the top that one might get if all they based their hypotheses on become empirical commentary. might I remind you that the people who favourite the actuality with regard to the courting between the solar the moon and earth (overturning thousands of years of stated yet fake theories) have been all Christian. As have been the innovators of the medical approach, and the forces at the back of the medical revolution. no person as ignorant as you need to have Einstein as his avatar, different than satirically, which we'd now all anticipate that this is.
Ironball
2006-08-25 04:40:14 UTC
Only the commad module returns.
hkyboy96
2006-08-25 04:58:19 UTC
yes that is true
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