command module

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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

In 1970, Mattingly was supposed to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

We also put on a couple of television shows, hoping to give people an idea of what the earth looked like, and what it was like living inside the command module in weightlessness.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins