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.

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.

Most pictures of the Apollo lunar module show the full, spidery spacecraft from the outside. Some of the best pictures are of it sitting on the surface of the Moon, accidentally but somehow ...

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 ...

Schirra, Eisele, and Cunningham were the first to fly in the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM), which provided housing and power for Moon-bound astronauts, ...

After fine tuning their orbit into a high elliptical, they would switch to the Alternate 1 mission plan, a 10 day Earth orbital command-service module flight similar to the one Apollo 7 had flown ...

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 ...

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 ...

One astronaut remained in the Command/Service Module (CSM) while the other two astronauts explored the moon in the Lunar Module (LM). #Apollo11 #LunarLanding #SpaceExploration #NASA JaredOwen ...

Apollo astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee (L-R). The Apollo 1 mission was to check the launch operations, ground tracking, control facilities, and performance of the Apollo Saturn. Their Apollo ...

On Feb. 9, 1971, "Kitty Hawk," the Apollo 14 command module, returned to Earth in the South Pacific Ocean, successfully ending the 10-day lunar landing mission. Splashdown occurred less than 800 ...

The Apollo I fire that claimed the lives of three astronauts -- Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee -- was 50 years ago today. We discuss the fire and how it changed the Apollo program ...