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
Two days after takeoff, an oxygen tank exploded, and the command module, Odyssey, began losing power.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
There were two Apollo spacecraft—the command module and the lunar module.
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.
