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 ...

John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...

But the biggest culprit, in hindsight, was horrifyingly obvious: At the time of the fire, the command module had been pressurized with pure oxygen at 16.7 pounds per square inch. Studying Apollo 1 ...

Chosen with the 1963 astronaut class, Eisele became Apollo 7’s command module pilot, well versed in its systems, especially the new digital guidance and navigation computer, crucial for lunar ...

Perhaps even more impressive, after taking a walk around, they climbed back in their lunar lander, launched off the surface of another planetary body (another first), rejoined the command module ...

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...

John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...