The Apollo spacecraft was designed to carry astronauts to the Moon and back, with two key components: the Command/Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). In this video, we’ll explore how each ...

Astronaut Walt Cunningham, who test-flew Apollo 7 command module, dies at 90. News. By Robert Z. Pearlman published 3 January 2023 Cunningham was the second American civilian to fly in space.

The Apollo 7 Command Module was returned to the United States and is currently on display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas. There, it remains a key exhibit, ...

Apollo 7 launched on Oct. 11, 1968, with the goal of demonstrating the capabilities of the command and service module and its crew. Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

Pictured left to right, in the Apollo 7 Crew Portrait, are astronauts R. Walter Cunningham, Lunar Module pilot; Walter M. Schirra, Jr., commander; and Donn F. Eisele, Command Module Pilot. The ...

Throughout the mission's 163 orbits over ten days and 20 hours, Apollo 7's crew put every vital life-support, communications, and navigational system on the twin Command and Service modules that ...

Apollo 7 astronauts Walter Cunningham (L), command module pilot; Walter M.Schirra, Jr. (C), commander, and Donn Eisele, lunar module pilot, pause outside their spacecraft following a satisfactory ...

This Apollo command module pressure model was part of a larger grouping built and used for wind tunnel testing conducted in the development stage of the Apollo program. The testing was to observe and ...

The prime crew of the first manned Apollo mission (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205) is seen in Apollo Command Module Boilerplate 1102 during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

This Command Module Simulator was used at Kennedy Space Center to train the Apollo astronauts. It was used in conjunction with the Lunar Module Simulator. The simulated command module was patterned ...