Ironically, Apollo had been on a free-return trajectory, but its course was changed in preparation for the lunar landing. Thus, five hours and 25 minutes after the service-module explosion ...

The decision to use lunar orbit rendezvous as the mission mode for Apollo meant that two docked spacecraft — the lunar module (LM) and command service module (CSM) — would arrive at the Moon.

The most efficient way to carry large quantities of hydrogen and oxygen on a spacecraft is in liquid form, and so the Apollo Service Module had two large liquid hydrogen tanks (which each held ...

A fire inside the Apollo Command Module during a test took the lives ... This NASA schematic details the size of the Apollo space capsules, service modules and lunar landers that would ultimately ...

NASA's famous Apollo 13 mission launched 50 years ago, and on April 14 the oxygen tank on its service module exploded. As you undoubtedly know, the mission's Moon landing was canceled after the ...

The Saint Louis Science Center is one of only four stops on the Smithsonian’s special traveling tour of the exhibit Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission. It features various artifacts, footage, and ...

the crew module separated from the service module. The crew capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean with the help of parachutes. A diagram showing the Artemis I mission’s path to the moon.

In this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the Apollo 16 Command and Service Module (CSM) "Casper" approaches the Lunar Module (LM). The two spacecraft were about to make their final ...