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 its day, the Apollo command module was the most complex machine ever built by man to be operated by man,” the website CollectSpace quoted Mr. Cunningham as saying.
From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023
Apollo 9 had called theirs Gumdrop and Spider, which I thought were neat names because the command module teas shaped like a gumdrop and the lunar module did look sort of like a spider.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
