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.

Command Module, "Columbia," was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar-landing mission.

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which ...

Astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit while astronauts Schmitt and Eugene A. Cernan, commander, descended in the Lunar ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected them.

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

The Apollo 10 command module with John Young aboard, named “Charlie Brown,” is seen from the lunar module “Snoopy” with crew members Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard, after ...

Summary This plaque is a replica of the one left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 16, who landed on the lunar surface on April 20, 1972. While command module pilot Ken Mattingly orbited the Moon, ...

The naval aviator turned astronaut led the mission, guiding it safely back to Earth after it went perilously wrong.