On August 25th, 1966, an Apollo Command Module was launched aboard a Saturn IB rocket in mission AS-202. This mission was intended to immediately precede the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission ...
John Young piloted the command module. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remembered the Soviet reaction to Apollo 10: "We used to joke that Stafford, rather than just doing a maneuver, could have changed ...
BP 1102A is constructed of aluminum, with its sidewalls painted with a bronze epoxy paint to simulate the look of a real Apollo Command module after splashdown. It was fitted with an actual Command ...
Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the ...
NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...
This unassembled plastic model kit including models of three American spacecraft ... a two-person Gemini spacecraft, and the three-person Apollo command and service module. The box art appealed to ...
Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...
the Lunar Module ascent stage with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. approaches for a rendezvous with the Apollo Command Module manned by Michael Collins, during the Apollo 11 mission ...
But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module, dimly lit by flickering flashlights, was a scene of devastation.
The three astronauts scheduled to make the first Apollo space flight were killed when a fire swept through the command module. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were all ...