Two, in fact. And they were both good. Apollo 7, the first crewed mission, made its way to space. The command module performed so well that NASA felt confident in making a bold move — sending ...

Anders, lunar module pilot; make up the prime crew for the mission. This concept art by a North American Rockwell Corporation artist depicts the Apollo 8 spacecraft Command and Service Modules ...

A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel ... both an engineering feat and a work of art," Lasoff wrote of the flight deck.

For that stretch of time, Aldrin and Armstrong rode with no seating, limited control, and no guarantee that they would be able to successfully dock with the Command Module. Apollo 11 Command and ...

Instead, it was the workhorse of the Apollo mission. It gave life to the nerve centre of the mission, the command module, and was unceremoniously cast off at the end of a flight and left to burn ...

The Lunar Module (LM or "Lem") was carried in a compartment behind the command and service modules. The BBC's James Burke takes a look inside the Apollo Command Module Having left Earth ...

E-mail Michael. The Apollo 11 command module Columbia has been on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum since 1970. But workers there have uncovered marks on the inside of the ...

On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...

On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in ...

(Left) Lowry adjusts a cap commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. (Right) Lowry holds a model of a prototype command module. The module design was overhauled, including the addition of a ...