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... transferred from Lunar Module LM to Command Module CM ; and continuously filter Command Module CM atmosphere during return trip to remove dust particles. Under original plans Apollo 11 . crew would have remained in Command Module CM after splashdown while it was hoisted onto recovery ship. After reviewing loads to be lifted in transferring Command Module CM to deck, reliability of shipboard ...

... itself, it will be visited by a Saturn IB - launched command and service module, bringing the first crew complement of three. The command module will dock to the multiple docking adapter, the crew will ... for 28 days." Crew would then "crawl back into their command module, detach... use the service module to deboost themselves, and the command module will reenter the ocean and make a normal Apollo landing. "About ...

... was the division’s main job. There were quite a few including the Lunar Module (LM) and the Command Module simulators. In fact, they were looking for someone to manage the LLTV contract ... , and the LLRV was delivered by FRC to Ellington. Neil Armstrong had been named the commander for the first Moon landing mission. He of course was very interested in all this ... had to figure out what had happened, go through a complete redesign of the Apollo Command Module as well as looking at other aspects of the program and trying to maintain a ...

... Apollo 9 , carrying Astronauts James A. McDivitt (commander), David R. Scott ( Command Module CM pilot), and Russell L. Schweickart ( Lunar Module LM pilot), would be launched from Kennedy Space Center KSC Launch Complex 39A ... simulated translunar insertion; Command Service Module CSM separation, transposition, and docking with Lunar Module LM ; onboard Lunar Module LM systems evaluation; extravehicular maneuvers between Lunar Module LM and Command Module CM ; manned Lunar Module LM active rendezvous; and ...

... track the rocket, and then a very rudimentary computer would figure out what the steering commands and send it back up to the Atlas. Well, it turns out that that initial ... fire, but the recovery after that was very quick. Apollo 7 went up and the command module worked perfectly, essentially, and then right after that, they sent Apollo 8 to the moon ... working on having to do with the performance of the Saturn V and the command and service module and everything. We had a simulation that we were running, and we couldn't ...

... Astronaut Richard F. Gordon , Jr." orbiting moon in Command Service Module CSM , set new world record for solo space flight. Gordon piloted Command Service Module CSM alone for 37 hrs 41 min, breaking 30 ... . Apollo 12 commander Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr." and Command Module CM pilot Richard F. Gordon , Jr." had both received promotions to commander, USN. Apollo 12 Lunar Module LM Pilot Alan L. Bean , also commander, USN, now ...

... modules were returned gently to the ground by three 88-ft. parachutes. This was the third successful test of functioning of the 33-ft. launch escape tower designed to jettison the command module ... fitting over the command module and designed to protect the docking mechanism of Lunar Excursion Module ''(LEM)'' from excessive heating during high temperatures of first-stage flight. It also protected command module Windows from exhaust ...

... for Apollo 13 were Astronauts James A. Lovell , Jr. (commander) , Thomas K. Mattingly II ( Command Module CM pilot), and Fred W. Haise , Jr. ( Lunar Module LM pilot). Backup crew was composed of Astronauts John ... . Apollo 14 prime crewmen were Astronauts Alan B. Shepard , Jr.commander), Stuart A. Roosa ( Command Module CM pilot), and Edgar D. Mitchell ( Lunar Module LM pilot). Backup crewmen were Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan , Ronald ...

... , presented the National Space Club's Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy to Skylab 4 Commander Gerald P. Carr on behalf of the nine astronauts who inhabited the Skylab Orbital Workshop ... Apollo command and service modules to accommodate the special requirements of the July U.S.-U.S.S.R. ASTP mission. Changes to the command module included a modified umbilical to accommodate docking-module functions ...

... lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 , April 16-27, 1972. He was accompanied on the fifth manned lunar landing mission by John W. Young (spacecraft commander) and Thomas K. Mattingly II (command module pilot ... ; first lunar observatory with the far UV camera; and longest in-flight EVA from a command module during transearth coast (1 hour and 13 minutes). The latter feat was accomplished by Mattingly ...

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