command module
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Its office features a replica of the Apollo 11 command module and an authentic Enigma encryption machine from 1943—the German device cracked by Allied codebreakers including celebrated British mathematician Alan Turing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
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
China completed Tiangong in November with the addition of the third of three modules, centered on the Tianhe living and command module.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023
From here it was an easy step to name our lunar module Eagle, but the command module was a more difficult choice.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
