To commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Smithsonian Institute has created a high-resolution 3-D scan of the “Columbia”, the command module, which carried ...

Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of science and technology for CNET and other pixel and paper pubs ... The Apollo 11 command module Columbia has been on display ...

(Left) Lowry adjusts a cap commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. (Right) Lowry holds a model of a prototype command module. The module design was overhauled, including the addition of a ...

“We were asked about scanning the Apollo command module both inside and outside ... “But the online model is really what we’re excited about.” That online model will engage both young ...

Back in June 1964, when people could view a full-scale model of the Apollo command module at the Museum of Science (before the moon landing), who could have imagined that a spacecraft would land ...

But the real horror came when rescuers reached Apollo 1, five minutes after Chaffee’s initial shout. The command module ... with fire-retardant Teflon and paper minimized, including reading ...

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.