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

In 1969, ABC built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface.

Both the Command Module and the Service Module from Apollo 11 followed the same re-entry trajectory, which could have proved fatal to the astronauts aboard the Command Module if a collision of any ...

Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module during the first Moon-landing Apollo mission, died on April 28 ...

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.

The mission ended successfully when the astronauts were able to power up the command module in time to make a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

The command module performed so well that NASA felt confident in making a bold move — sending Apollo 8 all the way around the moon in December. Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbit test of the lunar module.

Worden served as the command module pilot on Apollo 15, the first lunar mission to carry scientific instruments in the command module. While orbiting the Moon alone, farther from other people than ...

In 1969, ABC built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface.