command module
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Its office features a replica of the Apollo 11 command module and an authentic Enigma encryption machine from 1943—the German device cracked by Allied codebreakers including celebrated British mathematician Alan Turing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
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
Apollo 9 had called theirs Gumdrop and Spider, which I thought were neat names because the command module teas shaped like a gumdrop and the lunar module did look sort of like a spider.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
