a naval vessel with a shallow draught designed for landing troops, tanks, etc., in an amphibious assault; hence transferred in Astronautics, the…

Science Fiction and Astronautics. A spacecraft used, esp. repeatedly, to transport passengers and cargo over a relatively short distance, as between…

(a) A pressurized compartment in an aircraft, also used for an emergency escape. (b) The detachable nose-cone of a rocket or space missile for…

a small spacecraft or a self-contained part of a larger one that contains the instruments or crew for a space flight.

Astronautics. A section of a spacecraft that can operate as an independent self-contained unit.

a section of a spacecraft, esp. one in the U.S. Apollo series, containing the main engine and support systems.

A lunar excursion module (lunar, adj. 1b). See also L.E.M. n. at L, n. initialisms 1.

a module designed to take astronauts from an orbiting spacecraft to the moon's surface and back; a lunar module.