Both the Apollo Command Module (CM) and Lunar Module (LM) were humankind’s first fly-by-wire aircraft. This means that the human does not actually fly it manually by stick, the computer is the ...
Frank Borman was commander, James Lovell navigator and command module pilot, and William Anders, who had trained to operate the Lunar Module ... Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12.
The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing ...
The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in Earth orbit ... but here the Apollo 12 crew took a shot to show NASA the challenges they faced.
Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...
Last week we had a walk through of the Lunar Module’s source code with Don ... Below is an annotated video of the Apollo 12 landing, in real-time. It’s worth setting aside a quarter-hour ...
A half-century after Apollo 11's Eagle lander kissed ... the astronauts dubbed the command module Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy. As it happened, some four days into the mission ...
'Apollo Journey' follows the familiar story of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission from launch sequence, through lift-off, command module separating, lunar module (the ‘Eagle’) landing, stepping on the ...