The Apollo missions showed exact ... carrying the Command and Service Module (CSM)—their primary spacecraft for the journey.

By September 1962, the plan to put 75 tons into Earth orbit ... Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM), that alarmed Soviet managers the most. Before that, the U.S. schedule for reaching the moon ...

Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in their lunar program, NASA decided to change the mission of Apollo 8. Rather than another Earth orbit ...

Provided all goes well with Apollo 10 and lunar orbit checkout of the lunar module ... followed by the Apollo 11 Command Service Module (CSM) being mated to the top of the spacecraft adapter ...

Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This picture, taken from the command module America, shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit.Small ...

The photographs and films that the crew of Apollo 8 took of the moon gave scientists valuable information and helped NASA plan future landing missions. Just as important, data on the orbit of the ...

Charlie Duke • Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke landed on the moon on ... circular orbit! Did you encounter any surprises flying the Command/Service Module? The CSM flew more ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

It was in July 1969 that Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ventured to the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Collins — the mission's command module pilot — remained in orbit as ...