White II, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. A fire inside the Apollo Command Module during a test took the lives of all three astronauts. NASA had not experienced a disaster of this ...

When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two find a working, floor-to-ceiling solar system orrery, historic spacesuits on display and, at the center of the main hall, an Apollo command module. "Is it real?" asks Ellie, almost in a ...

Above: The Apollo Command Module on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, number 007A, is the first production-line capsule delivered to NASA for testing and training. It was originally ...

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were ...

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 Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

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 ...

The Apollo 11 Command Module, "Columbia," was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar-landing mission. This Command Module, no. 107, manufactured by North ...