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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A frequent question about space flight involves human waste. For urine collection, the Apollo command and service module was equipped with a hose that led, through a valve, to outer space.

Michael Collins was the command module pilot for Apollo 11, the spaceflight that took humans to the Moon for the first time Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.

An investigator looks at the charred interior of the Apollo I command module after the flash fire that killed the astronauts. All three men were killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside ...