The Apollo 11 lunar module traveled through space after being propelled toward the moon by a powerful rocket. Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module.

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

After completing their mission on the Moon, the Apollo astronauts returned to the Command Module (CM), which was orbiting the Moon while the Lunar Module (LM) was on the surface.

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar ...

This video explores the Apollo Lunar Module, the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the Moon's surface. It covers the two primary components of the module: the descent stage, which ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David ...

The Apollo 10 command module with John Young aboard, named “Charlie Brown,” is seen from the lunar module “Snoopy” with crew members Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard, after ...

Where the astronauts sat in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected them.

Summary This plaque is a replica of the one left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 16, who landed on the lunar surface on April 20, 1972. While command module pilot Ken Mattingly orbited the Moon, ...

Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

A Feb. 21 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of an astronaut standing on the moon near an American flag, a lunar module and a lunar rover. “How did the moon buggy fit ...