Ward, head of the Apollo egress training program, fellow Apollo astronaut trainer Louis DeWolf ... flipping the command module to its Stable-One position, the upright (heat shield down) position ...

When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts ...

Known for: Being the only astronaut to fly on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo lunar module and the Space Shuttle. He was also the ...

NASA’s Al Worden is one of the Apollo programme astronauts who flew to the Moon but never landed on its surface. As the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, Mr Worden stayed in lunar orbit while ...

Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham's death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by ...

Today the nation lost a true pioneer and lifelong advocate for exploration in astronaut Michael Collins. 'As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called him 'the loneliest man in history ...

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.

American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface to become the ...

Ed Mitchell piloted the Lunar Module on Apollo 14 ... returned from the mission to be head of the Astronaut Office, became the first person to command a space shuttle mission, and remained ...

Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for ... when he orbited the moon as pilot of the Apollo 16 command module, while two other crew members landed on the moon's surface.

Keywords Skylab, Apollo Command Module, biomedical experiments, weightlessness, cardiovascular studies, exercise capacity, sleep patterns, waste management, astronaut health, long-duration ...