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 ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked. The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for ...

Read some insider stories from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon ... For urine collection, the Apollo command and service module was equipped with a hose that led, through a valve, to outer ...

On July 21, 1969, Apollo ... of command, service, and lunar modules into lunar orbit; part of the spacecraft would then descend to the moon’s surface, while the command/service module continued ...

Without the lunar module, Apollo 8 would merely repeat the flight of ... and put Apollo 7 into “barbecue mode,” rolling the command and service modules slowly around their long axis to ...

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