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
The late John Young was first out of the lander and walked on the moon with Duke, while Ken Mattingly orbited the moon in the command module, nicknamed “Casper.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2022
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.
