James Burke and John Parry report from inside an Apollo space capsule simulator at the NASA space research centre in California.

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

The LiOH within the canister absorbed carbon dioxide, the charcoal eliminated odors, and the felt trapped particles and debris. This canister, made by Airesearch, was flown on the final Apollo lunar ...

Inside the Apollo 13 lunar module, a view of the "mail box," a jury-rigged solution to scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air, which the astronauts built using the cube-shaped command module ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's 1970 space mission Apollo 13, including its purpose, what went wrong, if the crew survived and more.

Once in lunar orbit, two astronauts used the lunar module to travel to the moon, leaving the still-connected command module and service module in orbit.