The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar ... after an explosion disabled their command module. In the middle of the instrument panel a label that reads “lunar contact ...

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 ...

Both the Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM) were humankind’s first fly-by-wire aircraft. This means that the human does not actually fly it manually by stick, the computer is the ...

John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing ...