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 ...

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 ...

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

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in ... another photo caption misstated a label on an Apollo 13 instrument panel. It said “lunar contact,” not ...

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 ...