command module

The service module was attached to the base of the cone, behind the command module, was 13 feet in diameter and24 feet long.

Six hours later, Armstrong emerged, and one fifth of the world's population watched as a camera link beamed the image from the Eagle into lunar orbit, via the command module to a satellite station in Australia, and then back to Houston, and around the world.

Mission commander Charles 'Pete' Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

He was ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts failed to rejoin their command module. The list of duties also included delivering a moving address to US citizens and the world.

And they've gone a bit Starship Enterprise by devising a central command module called the N-Form.

With seven educational and entertaining floors, boasting the Apollo 10 command module, the Science Museum is great for a rainy day.

Coated with aluminium and oxidised silicon monoxide, it protected the command module during its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere on July 24 1969.

Greg Proops is at the command module with all the questions.

The crew was forced to abandon the main command module and use the Moon-landing lunar module to coast back to Earth.

Mementos left on Moon: Along with their backpacks, an American flag, and half the Apollo 11 moon-landing module, Armstrong and Aldrin left some sentimental mementos on the surface of the moon, including, a patch from the never-launched Apollo 1 mission, which ended prematurely when flames engulfed the command module during a 1967 training exercise, killing three US astronauts.