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.

Upon returning to Earth, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins took ... to make public appearances ...

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.

The journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts remained in orbit in the ...

We just talked about 12, and the issues on 13 are well known. Apollo 14 almost didn’t have a successful docking between the command module and the lunar module: it took six attempts and a non ...

It has been 54 years since NASA landed astronauts on the Moon for the third time. On February 5, 1971, astronauts Alan ...

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 ...

Upon returning to Earth, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot Michael ... in 2012 at the age of 82. Apollo 12, commanded by Pete Conrad with Alan Bean as lunar module pilot, touched down ...