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
In 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history taking the first steps on the lunar surface, Collins was alone in the command module, orbiting the Moon.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
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
There were two Apollo spacecraft—the command module and the lunar module.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
