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 ...

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 ...

That same day, NASA managers met ... the fully assembled lunar lander was placed inside the spacecraft adapter followed by the Apollo 11 Command Service Module (CSM) being mated to the top of ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines ... Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process ...

There were then two identical Apollo Guidance Computers (AGC)—one was in the Apollo Command Module (Apollo CM), and one was in the Lunar Excursion Module ... the aid of old NASA diagrams ...

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 ...

With a more powerful upper stage, it was designed to carry the Apollo Command/Service Module and Lunar Module into low-Earth orbit. NASA used the Saturn IB for flight tests early on in the Apollo ...

the first test flight of a lunar module. Apollo 5 wound up being so successful in taking LM-1 through the paces of spaceflight, though, that NASA decided to keep LM-2 on the ground and use it for ...

A replica of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" and the moon ... U.S. and Russian crewed spacecraft side by side. NASA's Apollo 10 command module "Charlie Brown," which flew three astronauts ...