from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A space vehicle designed to land on a celestial body, such as the moon or a planet.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who lands or makes a landing.
noun One who lands or sets on land; especially, in mining, a man who stands at the mouth of a shaft or other landing-place, in order to receive the kibble when it comes up, and to see that its contents are properly disposed of. Also called, in England, banksman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun One who lands, or makes a landing.
noun (Mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
noun A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
noun slang An illegal immigrant.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a town in central Wyoming
noun a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
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If development money for a heavy lift vehicle or a lunar lander is cut, delayed or otherwise diverted we'll know the true nature of the Administrations commitment to space exploration.
For instance, they say the capsule lander is better than the lifting body lander, and in the same breath they say the capsule lander can't meet the mission requirements because the parachutes can't take the weight.????
Whether your lander is in cherry condition and you just want to keep it running well, or you have one you found covered in dust in a warehouse in New Mexico, this manual can help you get the most out of your 1969 series lunar lander.
If development money for a heavy lift vehicle or a lunar lander is cut, delayed or otherwise diverted we'll know the true nature of the Administrations commitment to space exploration.
Ironically, the way these slides show a charred and swept soil under the lander is quite correct, and - not surprisingly - pretty much exactly what actual Apollo photos document.
The team from the University of Bristol, Oceanlab at the University of Aberdeen, and the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton used a vehicle called a lander to record spontaneous light displays or bioluminescence produced by small abyssal creatures which were feeding at bait attached to the lander.
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