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Alameda, California-USS Hornet Museum (Apollo Block 1 Command Module CM-011)

Kennedy Space Center , Florida

The Apollo 11 command module, used on the first space flight to land on the moon, being cleaned and maintained at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia at Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

by Jon Allen

The computer used in Apollo capsules used a specialized language consisting of "verbs" and "nouns", which were input as 2-digit numbers, used for navigation and flight control. Zoom in to see the "cheat sheet' printed on the front panel.