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Command Module, Apollo 11

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Ars Technica

Here’s an unprecedented look at Apollo 13’s damaged service module

NASA’s famous Apollo 13 mission launched 50 years ago, and on April 14 the oxygen tank on its service module exploded. As you undoubtedly know, the mission’s Moon landing was canceled after the ...
CNN

Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a ‘successful failure’

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...
Seattle Times

Michael Collins, command module pilot on Apollo 11, dies at 90

On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the Crew of the Damaged Apollo 13 Came Home

Using the lunar module as a lifeboat and employing techniques never before considered, the astronauts’ ordeal ended triumphantly Alice George | Museums Correspondent On April 17, 1970, the parachutes ...