Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in ...

The Apollo astronauts had one shot to fire their Lunar Module’s ascent engine and get back to the orbiting command and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in ...