The Apollo Command Service Module served as a home away from home en route to the Moon and safely returned every last astronaut back to Earth.

Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command-service module.

For Apollo’s Command/Service module, where the astronauts would live most of the time, the limitations were not such a big deal. But for the Lunar Module it was attached to, the challenge was ...

The Apollo spacecraft was designed to carry astronauts to the Moon and back, with two key components: the Command/Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). In this video, we’ll explore how ...

Astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee were chosen to carry out a 14-day low orbital test of the Apollo Command/Service Module, with a launch date of Feb. 21 ...

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AS-204 was supposed to be the first manned flight test of the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM). The goal was to keep the module in-orbit for as long as 14 days for a full evaluation of the ...

As part of their strategy for returning safely to Earth, at 11:53 p.m. on April 13 the astronauts powered down the command/service module and powered up the lunar module, which was supposed to be ...

Things got even more complicated on Apollo 10 because it was the first time two manned spacecraft were used in the vicinity of the moon—both the command-service module and the lunar module—and ...

Apollo 13 was the third Moon landing attempt but had to abort after the rupture of a service module oxygen tank.

On March 3, 1969, NASA launched the Apollo 9 mission to test the first crewed Lunar Module spacecraft that would pave the way for future moon landings. See how the mission worked in photos here.

Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit With the Lunar Module still in process and reports of Soviet advances in their lunar program, NASA decided to change the mission of Apollo 8.