Cargo Platform Moon Lander, Retro Lunar Supply Craft

An uncrewed cargo lander: a flat square deck with raised edges carries a horizontal cylindrical tank, two stacked supply crates, a boxy equipment module with a recessed panel and a short ball-tipped antenna. Engine nozzles sit under the deck, and four angled legs with round footpads hold it above the ground. Leg-mounted landers became the defining spacecraft of the 1960s space race, when robotic probes and then crewed missions touched down on the Moon; the first crewed landing came in July 1969…

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