Why Did the Apollo Landers Look So Odd?

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The Apollo lunar lander or LEM was one of the strangest looking spacecraft ever built but it was designed to get a job done that had never been done before. Some say that it was a fake and too flimsy to withstand the rigours of space flight and get men to the moon and back again and yet it did that very job six times with without fail. This is the story of why the Apollo landers looked like they did and why they became an Icon of the space race.

Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito
Images and footage : Grumman Airfcraft Corp, NASA

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