Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

The Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) was conceived as the mothership — the spacecraft that would keep the crew alive throughout the lunar mission all the way to splashdown.

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. Apollo 8: Lunar Orbit ...

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 ...

Experience the historic journey to the moon with this video detailing the Apollo 11 mission, which marked the first successful landing on the lunar surface. One astronaut remained in the ...

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 ...

The crew of Apollo 8 flew to the Moon in Command Service Module (CSM) – a two-part modular spacecraft consisting of a Service Module that carried the spacecraft's main engine and was designed to ...

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.

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 ...

Within six hours of the explosion, the crew powers down the command service module and seeks refuge in the smaller lunar module, as a lifeboat. Just before the day ends, Apollo 13 makes its ...