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	Apollo Command/Service Module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Command Module was a truncated cone measuring 10 feet 7 inches (3.2 m) tall and having a diameter of 12 feet 10 inches (3.9 m) across the base.
		The command module's inner structure was an aluminum "sandwich" consisting of a welded aluminum inner skin, a thermally bonded honeycomb core, and a thin aluminium "face sheet".
		The central pressure vessel of the command module was its sole habitable compartment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo_Command/Service_Module (2584 words)

	Apollo 16
		The command module was viewed on television while dropping on the drogue parachutes, and continuous coverage was provided through crew recovery.
		Apollo 16 and 17 would carry instrumentation to measure cloud intensity and effects, deposits and their effects, critical surfaces, particle count, surface charge potential, and pressure.
		Payload: Apollo CSM 113/LM 11/ ALSEP/ LRV-2/PFS 2/S-IVB-511.
	www.astronautix.com /flights/apollo16.htm (4009 words)

	Apollo 11 Command Module - Milestones of Flight
		he Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the Moon and back on July 16-24, 1969.
		After reclaiming Armstrong and Aldrin from the ascent stage of the Lunar Module, "Columbia" was the only part of the spacecraft to return to Earth.
		he blunt-end design for the Command Module was chosen to build upon experience gained with the similarly shaped Mercury and Gemini spacecraft.
	www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal100/apollo11.html (210 words)

	Precursors to the Landing Missions
		The Apollo team did its best to make sure that equipment and procedures would work the first time they were tried in flight; and the successes of the unmanned test series and of Apollo 7 and Apollo 8 continued unabated into the final year of the decade.
		For the first time, on Apollo 9, a crew performed the delicate maneuver of separating the Command Module from the Saturn V, then moving away and turning around to dock with the stowed LM and pull it free of the Saturn.
		The crew of Apollo 9 demonstrated the readiness of all of the major components of Apollo; however, the margins for error in the first landing mission were very tight and, once again, it was a weight problem with the LM that forced a change of plans.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/apopre.htm (3338 words)

	Apollo 17
		The last sampling trip of the Apollo program was a traverse to the foot of the North Massif, where they found two large boulders that had obviously rolled down from outcrops higher on the mountain; their tracks were visible in the soft soil.
		Apollo's exploration of the moon, "one of the most ambitious and successful endeavors of man," was over.
		During the Apollo 17 mission, MSC would be responsible for the medical briefing at the mission reviews, would provide the medical staffing of the mission operations control room, would assume the medical line responsibilities in the operations team, and would provide mission surgeons to take part in the change-of-shift press briefings.
	www.astronautix.com /flights/apollo17.htm (3692 words)

	Astronomy Today - Exploration - Apollo Missions
		Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for a lunar landing mission and was conducted in lunar orbit, but it excluded the actual landing.
		Apollo 12 was the second lunar landing mission and the first mission to make a pinpoint landing on the moon.
		Apollo 14, the third mission to land on the moon, was launched on January 31, 1971.
	www.astronomytoday.com /exploration/apollo.html (2496 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Aerospace Museum lands Apollo 9 module
		Apollo 9 and its three-man crew, launched March 3, 1969, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., conducted the first tests in space of the lunar excursion module, which at one point was more than 100 miles from the command module while both were in Earth's orbit.
		The Apollo 9 command module, nicknamed "Gumdrop" by its crew, was powered only by 16 small monomethylhydrazine thruster rockets for adjusting position during re-entry, Myers said.
		The Apollo 9 module will then be moved to permanent exhibit space inside the museum proper and join the full-size mock-ups of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo modules.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20040206-9999_1m6apollo.html (744 words)

	Apollo Space Command Module
		The command module, built by North American Aviation (at the time of launch, North American Rockwell Corporation), accommodated three astronauts during the mission.
		This command module at Rockwell flew as Apollo 14 in 1971.
		North American Rockwell was the name of the company from 1967 to 1973, encompassing the time in which the Apollo 14 construction was completed and in which the Apollo program was completed, and as such it should be used to reflect historical accuracy.
	www.asme.org /history/roster/H162.html (190 words)

	North American Rockwell Apollo 15 Command Module (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Apollo 15 was the ninth manned Apollo flight and the fourth lunar landing.
		Three major components of the Apollo spacecraft were a service module containing support and propulsion systems; the lunar module, a "space taxi" to carry two astronauts to and from the moon's surface; and the command module which served as control center and living quarters for the three-man crew.
		The Apollo 15 command module, nicknamed "Endeavour" after the ship which carried Capt. James Cook on his 18th century scientific voyages, is 10 feet 7 inches high and weighed about 13,000 pounds at launch.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/space_flight/sf2.htm (337 words)

	The Partnership - ch3-7
		The spacecraft consisted of three major components - the cosmonauts' cabin (descent vehicle), occupied during the launch and reentry phases of the flight; an orbital module, partitioned from the descent vehicle by an airtight hatch; and an instrument assembly module.
		The command-center module became the crew quarters for all phases of the mission, and the propulsion module held all redundant and orbital maneuvering systems.
		Called CM for short, the command module was a multipurpose space cabin internally organized to function as a combined cockpit, office, laboratory, communications center, galley, sleeping quarters, and personal hygiene center.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4209/ch3-7.htm (2329 words)

	Apollo Lunar Module
		The Apollo Lunar Modules were deliberately targeted to impact (crash into) the Moon to provide artificial moonquake sources for seismic experiments.
		Apollo 9 - simulated in Earth orbit the operation of lunar module to landing and takeoff from lunar surface and rejoining with command module.
		Apollo 15 Mission- First of the Apollo "J" series which carried Lunar Roving Vehicle in LM Falcon.
	www.fi.edu /pieces/schutte/LMintro2.html (635 words)

	Contact Light - a personal retrospective of Project Apollo
		The Apollo project was dealt a major setback in early 1967 with the tragic Apollo 1 fire and death of its crewmen during training, and it wasn't until October of 1968 (23 months after the final Gemini flight) that manned missions resumed with the launch of earth orbital mission Apollo 7.
		Apollo 16 continued the lunar "J" mission series in April of 1972, landing in the Moon's Descartes region.
		Apollo 17 set records for total duration of lunar EVA's (22 hours), distance driven with the LRV (36 km.) and lunar samples collected (254 lbs.), and brought the manned lunar landing missions to conclusion in grand fashion with a spectacular televised lunar liftoff.
	www.retroweb.com /apollo_retrospective.html (3591 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Apollo 9 module arrives at Aerospace Museum
		SAN DIEGO –; The Apollo 9 Command Module arrived safely at its new home at the San Diego Aerospace Museum today, where it will be the first Apollo capsule flown in space ever displayed in the Western United States.
		Apollo 9, which is on loan to the museum, will likely be a permanent exhibit, Varonfakis said.
		Apollo 9 was launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a Saturn V rocket on March 3, 1969, with three astronauts aboard – Col. James A. McDivitt, Col. David R. Scott and module pilot Russell L. Schweickart.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20040526-1518-apollo9.html (296 words)

	Apollo 10 Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The photograph shows the module in its present state, in the Exploration of Space Gallery.
		The Apollo 10 Command Module, designation CSM 106, comprises an inner structure of a sheet-aluminium honeycomb-bonded sandwich.
		All the Apollo command modules were built by the North American Rockwell Corporation.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/apollo10/item2.asp (87 words)

	APOLLO MANIACS:APOLLO spacecraft Command Module
		The Command Module is the central part of the Apollo spacecraft.
		The Command Module has a double structure, comprised of the cabin and the outer wall.
		While the CDR and LMP are on the surface of the moon, the CMP handles observation of the surface and serves as a communications relay between the Earth and LM, in addition to the normal work of the CDR and LMP.
	apollomaniacs.web.infoseek.co.jp /apollo/cme.htm (1085 words)

	Apollo 12 mission history - Detailed account of the second mission to land a man on the moon
		Apollo 11 had landed 4 miles from their intended target and geologists needed a pinpoint landing for detailed studies of specific areas.
		All three previous Apollo flights to the moon were along a trajectory called a "free return" that would allow the spacecraft to loop the moon and returning to earth if it failed to attain lunar orbit.
		After Conrad and Bean entered and activated the lunar module, command module pilot Dick Gordon turned the spacecraft so that the long axis of the command and service module was perpendicular to the flight path with the lunar module outward from the moon.
	www.thespaceplace.com /history/apollo/apollo12.html (3171 words)

	LUNAR MODULE MISSIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The mission of Apollo 10 was to conduct all phases of Apollo spacecraft operations except the actual lunar landing, including rendezvous and docking between the CSM and LM in lunar orbit and descent of the LM to within 50,000 feet of the moon's surface.
		Falcon rejoined the CSM on the latter's 50th lunar orbit and the particles and fields (PandF) subsatellite was released on the 74th orbit.
		The last human activity on the moon's surface during the Apollo program came at 5:23 pm EST on 13 December 1972, with lift-off of the LM ascent module at 5:55 pm.
	users.specdata.com /home/pullo/lm_mis1.htm (1243 words)

	Manned Space Chronology: Apollo 17
		The final Apollo flight to the Moon was launched about 2 hours, 40 minutes late due to a technical difficulty during the countdown.
		Although the Apollo 17 astronauts completed the last Moonwalks in the Apollo program, these were certainly not the least, as most records set during the course of the Apollo program were broken.
		Apollo 17 was not originally intended to be the last Apollo flight to the Moon.
	spaceline.org /flightchron/apollo17.html (767 words)

	Apollo 8 Mission Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was back-up command pilot for Gemini 4, command pilot for Gemini 7, and commander of Apollo 8.
		He was back-up pilot for Gemini 4, pilot of Gemini 7, back-up command pilot for Gemini 9, command pilot for Gemini 12, command module pilot of Apollo 8, back-up commander for Apollo 11, and commander of Apollo 13.
		He was the back-up pilot for Gemini 11, lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, and back-up command module pilot for Apollo 11.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo8/A08_Overview.html (350 words)

	Leisure
		Apollo 7 Command Module: The crew hatch is open.
		Apollo 7 Command Module: The aft heat shield.
		The commander sits in the left seat (not visible), the command module pilot (CMP) in the center, and the lunar module pilot in the right seat.
	www3.sympatico.ca /chris.irie/leisure.htm (1442 words)

	Apollo Lunar Module Lack Of Flame And Exhaust And Other Anomalies
		For the Apollo lunar ascent and descent module single main engine and sixteen attitude control thrusters, the fuel and oxidizer were, respectively, hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
		In this image showing the Apollo 17 lunar ascent module "Challenger" supposedly lifting off from the Taurus-Littrow landing site there is no flame, exhaust, or even engine exhaust shroud visible from the bottom of the lunar ascent module.
		For the longer missions, such as Apollo 17, by the time the LM would have ascended from the moon's surface, several days of nearly perpendicular constant sunlight bombardment to moon surface equipment would have already occurred.
	internet.ocii.com /~dpwozney/apollo1.htm (1629 words)

	APOLLO COMMAND MODULE MODEL HOME PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The teardrop-shaped APOLLO command module, (shown above) the living quarters for the three-man crews, had a differenct shape from the conical-nosed GEMINI and MERCURY.
		A fire inside an APOLLO command module (Spacecraft 012 shown above was the CM which was destroyed by the fire.) took the lives of astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, who were training inside it at the time.
		The final three missions were far more sophisticated than the first three, in large part because the astronauts carried a lunar rover that allowed them to roam miles from their base.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/CMmodel.html (334 words)

	Apollo 13 Command Module recovery after splashdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The CM is connected by strong cable to a hoist on the vessel.
		The Apollo 13 crewmen were already aboard the Iwo Jima when this photograph was taken.
		The Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m., April 17, 1970 in the South Pacific Ocean.
	www.apolloexplorer.co.uk /photo/html/as13/10075537.htm (71 words)

	Apollo Capsule and Command Module
		The lander was made so that it could be positioned by the command modules (see above left), but was turned around, feet outward, for boarding.
		When the ill-fated Apollo 13 command module suffered an explosion, the three astronauts use the lunar lander as a lifeboat, permitting their safe return to earth.
		The above model is of the Apollo 11 vehicles, the ones that made the first moon landing.
	www.aviation-central.com /space/usm90.htm (126 words)

	GPN-2003-00057 - Apollo 1's Command Module
		This photograph shows Apollo 1's Command Module a day after the fire that took the lives of astronauts Lt. Col.
		The photograph was taken in the White Room at Launch Complex 34 where the Command Module was taken.
		With these adjustments, the Apollo program became safer and successfully sent astronauts to the Moon.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2003-00057.html (123 words)

	One Giant Leap: The Legacy Of Apollo 11
		Like his Apollo 11 colleague, Buzz Aldrin, Collins was chosen by NASA in 1963 during their third recruitment of astronauts.
		During this three-day mission he made two spacewalks and recovered a micrometeorite detection device that was attached to the side of a vehicle left in space by the Gemini 8 crew.
		After medical problems caused him to lose his seat on the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission, Collins was assigned to Apollo 11 as command module pilot.
	www.exn.ca /apollo/eagle/collins.cfm (338 words)

	Manned Space Chronology: Apollo 7
		Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo flight and featured the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle.
		A Lunar Module (LM) used for lunar landing operations was not flown on Apollo 7.
		A total of seven television transmissions from the Apollo 7 spacecraft were broadcast live via commercial television in the U.S. and overseas.
	www.spaceline.org /flightchron/apollo7.html (301 words)

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