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Edited NASA image of the splash-down of the Command Module of Apollo 16.
Original caption: The Apollo 16 command module, with astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, nears splashdown in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude a lunar landing mission. This overhead picture was taken from a recovery aircraft seconds before the spacecraft hit the water. The splashdown occurred at 290:37:06 ground elapsed time at 1:45:06 a.m. (CST), April 27, 1972, at coordinates of 00:43.2 degrees south latitude and 156:11.4 degrees west longitude, a point approximately 215 miles southeast of Christmas Island.
PictionID:55775407 - Catalog:Project Apollo Details: Project Apollo; Command Module Mock Up Date: 03/28/1961 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037686.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
Apollo Command Module Boilerplate
A boilerplate is a simplified metal model created to test specific aspects of the real spacecraft, such as water landings, launch abort escape rockets, or recovery systems. It duplicates the size, weight, shape, and center of gravity of the actual vehicle.
This particular boilerplate is BP-1101A. NASA used it for flotation tests in the Gulf of Mexico in July, 1965. After some modifications, NASA used it for additional ocean testing in 1966 and 1967.
On Ioan from the National Air and Space Museum.
At the Ames Research Center, 3 NASA personnel, suited in spaceflight restraining gear, prepare to climb aboard the Apollo Spacecraft. This preliminary mockup model was placed on display today. The Apollo Command Module is 13 ft. wide and 12 fl. high, and will be the most complex manned flight device ever designed and built for earth orbit and lunar landing.
NASA photo dated April 6, 1962.
This is a command module trainer. A mock up used in astronaut training.
The Flotation Collar and Flotation Bags are the actual bags used on the Apollo 11 Mission. The bags deployed when the spacecraft touched down in the ocean.
They were designed to deploy and right the aircraft in the event that it landed nose down and started to sink.
The custom made flotation collar was fitted to the spacecraft by navy divers who entered the water from a Military Helicopter to stabilise the craft.
Cropped image of Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia's umbilical fairing during CSM/SLA mating procedures.
PictionID:53763902 - Catalog:14_032113 - Title:Apollo Program Details: Overall View Apollo Semi-Hard Mockup with Worker Date: 08/24/1961 - Filename:14_032113.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Edited Apollo 13 image of the damage done to the Command Module from the exploding oxygen tank a few days earlier.
On display at Kennedy Space Center
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The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia that carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins on their journey to the first manned landing on the moon in July, 1969. The capsule is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in downtown Washington, D.C.
At recent B612 event, Rusty took 10 minutes to teach a few of us how to fly the Command Module and the Lunar Module....all, while holding a glass of red wine!
We we lucky enough to be at DFJ headquarters, where Steve houses his space collection...including a Command Module and a Lunar Module Controller. Seeing them both inspired Rusty to reassume his role as Lunar Module pilot, and share how each controller worked. He completely lit up, as he manipulated the controllers and explained how each adjustment would affect the spacecraft. A truly once in a lifetime experience!
También llamada módulo de mando. Era la cápsula donde los astronautas regresaban a la tierra.
La aventura del espacio - Madrid
The capsule that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon in July 1969.
PictionID:55775393 - Catalog:Atlas 4F Details: Stillwell Installation in 4F Showing Sensors Date: 03/22/1961 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037685.tif - ---- Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Vista del interior de la escotilla módulo de mando Apolo. Rediseñada completamente después del accidente del Apolo 1.
La aventura del espacio - Madrid
Collection Name: MS439 John Paulus Collection
Photographer/Studio: likely Whitey Owens
Description: Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes (left) stands with astronauts Buzz Aldrin (center) and Michael Collins (right) next to the Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia," on display outside the Capitol for the one-year anniversary of the first moon landing.
Coverage: United States – Missouri – Cole County – Jefferson City
Date: 07/20/1970
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: MS439_Box200_F010.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
Pima Air and Space Museum
NORTH AMERICAN ROCKWELL
APOLLO COMMAND MODULE (MOCKUP)
The Apollo command module is the NASA spacecraft that flew astronauts from the Earth to the Moon and back.
In 1961, NASA awarded the contract for the command module to then North American Aviation. It was a continuation of the "capsule" spacecraft design used in the Mercury and Gemini Programs. The Apollo command module was larger to accommodate three astronauts and used advanced computers and navigational equipment on the longer lunar flights. For most of the flight, the command module was attached to the service module which contained the propulsion, environmental, electrical, control and fuel systems.
Unlike the previous NASA spacecraft, the Apollo command module was built with a docking assembly and hatch so that it could dock with the lunar module. The lunar module would detach and land on the moon with two astronauts leaving the command module and its pilot in lunar orbit until their return.
Thirty-five command modules were built, with 15 of them being launched on manned space missions. These included eleven Apollo missions, three Skylab missions, and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. The rest of the modules were used in various Earthbound tests or unmanned test flights.
This command module mockup was built by North American Rockwell for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite during their reporting of the Apollo missions. Made up of surplus command module panels, equipment, couches and other parts, it gave television viewers a visual of the interior of the spacecraft. During the Apollo missions, there was limited live and recorded footage for use by the networks. Mockups, models, graphics and other visual aids were important tools for reporters to help fill in the visual narrative of an Apollo mission.
The mockup was later used in the Ron Howard & Tom Hanks HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. In the miniseries, the mockup was used by Emmett Seaborn, a fictitious news anchor with the fictitious NTC network.
Technical Specifications (Command Module Without Service Module):
Length: 30 ft-10 in
Diameter: 10 ft-7 in
Interior 210 cubic feet
Weight: 12.251 Ibs. (without service module)
Crew: 3
Animated GIF created from Apollo 11 images of the ascent module of the Lunar Module flying towards the Command Module for a docking after landing on the Moon in July of 1969.
The rounded cone on the left - is the Command Module which was the primary vehicle for getting the astronauts from the Earth to the Moon (two of them would transfer to the Lunar Module to go down to the Moon's surface and back up to the 3rd crew member waiting in orbit).
The Escape tower - was basically a solid rocket booster attached the Command Module - that would have been used to pull the crew away from the main rocket stack in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or in the early seconds of the flight.
An updated version of the Escape Tower is part of the plan for the new Constellation/Orion program.
StenniSphere Museum and Visitor Center
John C. Stennis Space Center
This Apollo command module was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 9, 1967. It was unmanned and primarily used to test the thermal protection system during reentry.
The launch vehicle was AS-501... the first Saturn V ever launched. After successfully placing the command module in a 117-mile circular orbit, the third stage was reignited to place the vehicle in an elliptical orbit with a 10,800-mile apogee. Total mission time for the Apollo 4 was 08 hours 37 minutes 08 seconds.
The first and second stages of the Saturn V were tested here at SSC prior to being shipped to Kenned Space Center for assembly and launch.
This is CM-106, the command module from Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal mission for Apollo 11. Currently on loan to the Science Museum in London, UK.
In-flight cropped image showing Apollo 11 Command Module, Columbia's umbilical fairing.
While searching for a "good" in-flight photo of the fairing, it quickly became obvious that there are very very few photographs of this particular CSM in-flight...so the choices were limited.
So, not only does Buzz not take any good photos of Neil - neither of them in turn, take any good photos of the CSM, and by virtue, Mike.
National Museum of the US Air Force
Command Module Endeavour
Apollo 15 was the fourth successful moon landing mission and the only Apollo mission with an all-U.S. Air Force crew. Col. David R. Scott, Lt. Col. James B. Irwin, and Maj. Alfred M. Worden flew this spacecraft, named Endeavour, to the moon in July 1971. The command module is named after the ship that carried Capt. James Cook on his famous 18th century scientific voyage.
Apollo 15 focused mainly on lunar science, and was the first mission to use a lunar rover vehicle. The crew spent four days traveling to the moon, then Scott and Irwin landed the lunar module Falcon on the moon’s surface. They spent 67 hours exploring and setting up scientific experiments. Worden remained in orbit aboard Endeavour conducting experiments and photographing the moon. Just over 12 days after launch, the crew returned safely, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
Project Apollo’s main goal was to land astronauts on the moon and return them safely to Earth. Beating the Soviets to the moon in the “space race” of the 1960s was an important part of the Cold War competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for prestige and world leadership in science and technology. The U.S. won the moon race when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and returned to Earth in July 1969. Apollo achieved six lunar landings through 1972, and 12 astronauts walked on the moon. Of the 29 astronauts who flew Apollo missions, 14 were Air Force officers or had Air Force experience.
The command module is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Crew: Three
Weight: 12,831 lbs. at launch
Interior: 210 cubic feet (about the size of a minivan)
Cockpit of Odyssey, Apollo XIII Command Module on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas. It was restored by the Cosmosphere in 1996 and was made famous by the Tom Hanks movie "Apollo 13."
The Cosmosphere was founded in 1962 when Patty Carey, Hutchinson civic leader and amateur astronomer, opened the Hutchinson Planetarium on the Kansas State Fairgrounds. The Cosmosphere is nationally recognized space museum.
This is the actual hatch from Apollo 11 command module Columbia and is exhibited separately from the capsule itself. I snapped a photo of my daughter in the same pose, and couldn’t help but get her to give me a rare selfie in the same way...
This hatch, the Columbia, and a bunch of other lunar landing mission artifact are part of a limited, traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, called Destination Moon.