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 ...

That would have worked, had the command module not needed to be shut down ... Grumman and the Mitre Corporation. For his service to the space program, and in particular his role in saving the Apollo ...

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 Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

The basic plan is to use a big carrier rocket to send a probe comprising two parts — an orbiter and a reentry module — toward ... telemetry and command systems, as well as landing site ...

Standing tall in the main room is the B-36J Peacemaker, with only three others left in the world. This giant counts as the ...

Michelle Nolan is a lifelong fan and collector of comic books, with an enormous collection of vintage periodicals — and a ...