To commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian Institute has created a high-resolution 3-D scan of the “Columbia”, the command module, which carried ...

the Apollo 11 command module, Columbia. Now, you can explore the module without leaving your couch with the help of a newly-released 3D model that offers unprecedented access to one of history’s ...

“We were asked about scanning the Apollo command module both inside and outside ... “But the online model is really what we’re excited about.” That online model will engage both young ...

The only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft to make it back to earth was the command module "Columbia," where ... piece together to form the 3D model. Scanning the spacecraft revealed secrets ...

(Left) Lowry adjusts a cap commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. (Right) Lowry holds a model of a prototype command module. The module design was overhauled, including the addition of a ...

A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel ... injection-molded plastic model. A change in manufacturers, though, significantly ...

A fire inside the Apollo Command Module during a test took the lives ... Chaffee sits in hatch of the boilerplate model of the spacecraft. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, third member of the crew ...

reconnect with command module; come home — that would take years of effort (and not a few mistakes) to finally put into triumphant, era-defining practice. In July 1969, when Apollo 11’s ...

An ambitious project is underway to map a 3D model of the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, the only surviving part of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Few people have seen inside ...