Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the background of the image, the Earth is visible ...

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized ...

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon ... Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot, and Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins called ... part of the spacecraft would then descend to the moon’s surface, while the command/service module continued in lunar orbit. Once the mission ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar ...

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Ronald "Ronny" Krist won the suit that established crashworthiness in Texas, and represented the ...

Charlie Duke • Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and ... Did you encounter any surprises flying the Command/Service Module? The CSM flew more like a Mack truck than a T-38. To dock, the trick ...

A white-dialed edition followed in 2015 in time for the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission ... with Snoopy traveling in the Command and Service Module (CSM)—which actually rotates ...

After the U.S. Army assigned Thomas Tate to guided missile training, his life forever changed. He ended up spending decades ...

Glenn/UPI In 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 en route to a planned moon landing and one of the three astronauts aboard, Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, famously said ...

On this day 1970 - Apollo 13 Explosion After a routine stir of an oxygen tank, damaged wiring insulation caused an explosion which depleted both of the Service Module’s oxygen tanks into space. The ...

(NASA Image) The command module was named Odyssey, and the lunar module was named Aquarius. While en route to the Moon on April 13, an oxygen tank in the Apollo service module ruptured. The lunar ...