command module

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It should have been a routine procedure but the command module, Odyssey, shuddered.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

For her 16th, Joel takes her to a science museum, where she lives out her dream of going to space by climbing inside the Apollo 15 command module.

From Salon • May 19, 2025

In Downey, North American Aviation built the command module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed astronauts on the moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

In 1970, Mattingly was supposed to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee were sitting in the command module as the command center counted them down toward a launch.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson