Here, the Apollo XI LEM has separated from the command module and hangs, seemingly upside down (though there is no upside down in space) before the camera of Michael Collins, left alone in the ...

Apollo 11’s Saturn V rocket lifted ... On Sunday, July 20, at 100:0:12 hours, the Command Space Module, CSM, and the Lunar Module, LEM, undocked from each other. Armstrong and Aldrin commanded ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components: 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 ...

On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module ... Apollo 9 mission (Feb. 28) began substituting descriptive nicknames for the unwieldy jargon prescribed for their spacecraft. The command and service ...

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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 ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...