NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape ...

Apollo astronauts used the DSKY (Display-Keyboard) to interact with the flight computer with a series of 2-digit codes punched ... parts of the Apollo Command Module and it’s also quite rare.

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 ...

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in ... On the LEM leg at the 2 o’clock position, the ladder that astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell would later ...

The astronauts climbed through a hatch from the command module into the contiguous ... unique engineering achievements of the Apollo program." The LM-2 was built for Earth-orbit tests, not ...