July 15, 2019
Building landing gear is a long-lived tradition since 1942 at Héroux-Devtek. So much that 50 years ago, the Longueuil-based company, then known as Héroux Machine Parts Limited, built the landing gear for the lunar module of Apollo 11’s mission to the moon. Héroux-Devtek manufactured the spider-like landing gear legs on the lunar module to NASA’s specification. To this day, the legs remain on the moon in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility.
