Editing Apollo Lunar Module (section)

===LM Truck===
The Apollo LM Truck (also known as Lunar Payload Module) was a stand-alone LM descent stage intended to deliver up to {{convert|11000|lb|t}} of payload to the Moon for an uncrewed landing.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/LM23_LM_Derivatives_LMD1-13.pdf |title=APOLLO NEWS REFERENCE - LUNAR MODULE DERIVATIVES FOR FUTURE SPACE MISSIONS |publisher=Grumman}}</ref> This technique was intended to deliver equipment and supplies to a permanent crewed [[lunar base]]. As originally proposed, it would be launched on a Saturn V with a full Apollo crew to accompany it to lunar orbit and guide it to a landing next to the base; then the base crew would unload the "truck" while the orbiting crew returned to Earth.<ref>[http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apotruck.htm Apollo LM Truck on Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215210907/http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apotruck.htm |date=December 15, 2005 }} – Description of adapted LM descent stage for the uncrewed transport of cargo to a permanent lunar base.</ref> In later AAP plans, the LPM would have been delivered by an uncrewed lunar ferry vehicle.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/LM23_LM_Derivatives_LMD1-13.pdf |title=APOLLO NEWS REFERENCE - LUNAR MODULE DERIVATIVES FOR FUTURE SPACE MISSIONS |publisher=Grumman}}</ref>