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Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

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To get astronauts to the Moon, Nasa had to build the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was just the rocket for the job. 111: Height of Saturn V rocket in metres On 16 July ...

WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...

Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, died Wednesday after a ...

So far, all of the craft designed to carry men into the space age have had the clean-lined look of the Mercury and Gemini capsules. By comparison, the lunar module (LM) that lifted from Cape Kennedy ...