John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ... and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an ...

NASA’s flight controllers on the ground played a critical role and were instrumental in devising the solution that allowed ...

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 ...