Crewed lunar module testing finally went ahead with Apollo 9 in early 1969, when the lunar and command modules successfully undocked and redocked in Earth orbit.

So, while the Apollo program's lunar landings, which began 50 years ago this July 20, will be front of mind in the coming weeks, the command module deserves its time in the spotlight.It was the ...

The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

Having left Earth, Apollo performed a mid-flight turn to dock with the Lunar Module, which was carried into space behind the Command Module, before turning again and heading for the Moon. 3.

When NASA’s Artemis 1 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California Sunday, it brought to an end a supremely successful mission that tested an entirely new rocket — the space ...

The lunar module on this mission was nicknamed "Snoopy"; the command module was nicknamed "Charlie Brown." (Charlie Brown, after all, rarely gets to have any fun.

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were ...

American astronauts and crew of the Apollo 10 mission, from left, Lunar Module pilot Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), Command Module pilot John Young and Commander Thomas P Stafford ...

From there, he assisted with NASA’s rescue efforts, and after the Apollo 13 astronauts moved from the Command/Service Module (CSM) to the Lunar Module (LM), he helped them hack an air filter to ...

Two of them then entered the lunar module, which the crew named Snoopy, and flew to within 47,000 feet of the moon’s surface before returning to the command module, Charlie Brown. Then they all ...

Upon returning to Earth, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins took part in ticker tape parades, addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, and completed (some might say ...

Having left Earth, Apollo performed a mid-flight turn to dock with the Lunar Module, which was carried into space behind the Command Module, before turning again and heading for the Moon. 3.