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the contractor behind the Apollo spacecraft, awarded a contract to the Beech Aircraft Corporation for the service module’s cryogenic gas storage tanks. The oxygen tank Beech developed was a ...
Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably ... food and — along with a companion service module — all of the systems needed for a round-trip journey to the moon.
The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) was conceived as the mothership ... What NASA didn’t ask for at this time was the landing payload; contractors were left to assume that some additional ...
On November 15, 1960, NASA awarded six-month feasibility study contracts for just such an Apollo spacecraft ... time was to include a Command Module (CM), a Service Module (SM), and an orbital ...
Rather than fixing things piecemeal, the contractors made "maybe a thousand ... orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module ...
AS-204 was supposed to be the first manned flight test of the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM ... and NASA's chosen contractor made several decisions that directly led to the fire and loss ...
The command service module, dubbed “Charlie Brown” for the Apollo 10 mission to the moon ... already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon contractors, could win billions of dollars in new ...
Apollo 10 "dress rehearsal" mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.
A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo ... lunar module, command module and service module to ...