What do you call the Apollo LEM plus CM (Command Module) when they are connected?

Question

In the question How far away can spacecraft be seen with an optical telescope? I used

...Apollo 14 CM & LEM and the Saturn IV B..."

for lack of better words. Unlike some people I (don't) have the best words.

What is a better way to say "Apollo 14 CM & LEM"? Is there a one word name for those two spacecraft when they are connected, traveling and maneuvering in space together as a single unit?

For example, I think we can say Soyuz spacecraft to refer to all three components when they are connected, and Soyuz capsule for the unit containing astronauts returning to Earth.

But if I said Apollo spacecraft it might refer to either the CM, LEM, or both when connected. I'm looking for a term that refers exclusively to the connected pair.

Answer 1

I haven't seen a non-compound name used for the combination; the term "CSM/LM" seems to have been preferred. Here are a few contemporary NASA sources:

• The Docking and Transfer (15 April 1969, p. 2.13-3) section of the SM2A-03-Block II-(1) Apollo Operations Handbook refers to them as "the combined CSM/LM".

• Apollo 12 (AS-507) Mission Post Launch Mission Operation Report (M-932-69-12, 25 November 1969) refers to the combination multiple times as the "CSM/LM".

• Mission Operation Report – Apollo 9 (AS-504) Mission (M-932-69-09, 18 February 1969) also makes numerous references to "CSM/LM".

• Additional examples of the "CSM/LM" usage can be found in a number of contemporary NASA reports.