How Did the Spacecraft Get to the Moon? Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing ...

National Air and Space Museum Command Module, Apollo 11 National Air and Space Museum Collection Assembly, Fecal, Apollo 11 National Air and Space Museum Pouch, Storage, for Roll-on Urine Cuffs, ...

A half-century after Apollo 11's Eagle lander kissed the Sea ... the astronauts dubbed the command module Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. As it happened, some four days into the mission ...