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... (commander), Michael Collins ( Command Module CM pilot), and Edwin E. Aldrin , Jr. ( Lunar Module LM pilot), into circular parking orbit with 118.5-mi (190.7-km) altitude. After post-insertion checkout Command Service Module CSM ... donned by astronauts inside Command Module CM and by one swimmer. Two other swimmers moved upwind of Command Module CM on another large raft. Postlanding ventilation was turned off and Command Module CM powered down, and ...

... dock with orbiting Command Service Module CSM -108, Yankee Clipper, and return safely to earth. November 14-18: Spacecraft carrying Astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr. (commander), Richard F. Gordon , Jr. ( Command Module CM pilot), and ... . Command Module CM was retrieved and mated to MQF transfer tunnel on board recovery ship. From inside MQF/ Command Module CM containment envelope, MQF engineer removed lunar samples and equipment through decontamination lock and Command Module ...

... command module and also into the lunar module. So this time I was involved with the lunar module. Then we had to figure out the interfaces between the command module and the service module, between the command service module and the lunar module, how ...

... lunar module/command module were about (what?) two-thirds of the way to the Moon when that oxygen tank exploded. '''Duke:''' It was 55 hours out. Yeah. '''Ward:''' And so, that disabled the command module ... module and go back into the command module and keep those batteries charged— '''Ward:''' That’s right. Because you had—regardless of whether the lunar module got you back, you had to have the command module ...

... separates from the command module?I said after it separates from the command module, but at that time, it wasn’t decided that this vehicle was going to separate from the command module. At one time ... put on the?they actually put a target in the lunar module—I mean in the command module, so that the lunar module could dock. It turned out that somebody had miscalculated the angles ... , but I was their boss at the time. Back to the Command Modules here, until Apollo 7, I worked on the Command Modules. Well, I worked on them after that too, but in terms ...

... . You’ve change the orbit. You then light the main engine of the command module with the lunar module now connected on its nose for the first time. For moment you wonder whether ... it, test it. Your job is to stress and strain that tunnel between the command module and the lunar module. It is critical to make sure it will really hold together. And again ... that that engine will work and that it can also push both the lunar module and the command module around, in case one day that has to be done -little knowing that only ...

... serious study. And never had anybody thought of firing the lunar module descent engine while it was still attached to the command module. It isn't designed for that. We had to invent ... computers, those two computers we had in the command module and the lunar module had 64 kilobytes of memory, and all the while the lunar module was calculating the path to the ground, gimbaling ... so that the com communication breaks wouldn't be so bad from the lunar module going or the command module going in orbit, and we could relay data back and all. But he ...

... Haise was going to be the CDR commander , Bill William R. Pogue was to be the command module pilot, and I was to be the lunar module pilot. We got started on that, began ... . We also had all of our regular command module and training that went along with that. I think that's a very exciting one. The command module training they give you for when you land in a Stable 2 position, that is, with the point of the command module pointing down instead of up ...

... the command module simulator after we got on orbit and did the on-orbit maneuvers and then the rendezvous with the lunar module. Then the flight crew would get out of the command module simulator, transfer over to the lunar module, or two of them did. The command module pilot would stay in the command module simulator. So ...

... from the service module had to be isolated from the command module, and we opened up the valve. We had a valve that isolated the command module part of it from the service module part, so if we got a hole in the service module ... that we could do it. Of course, the command module was basically dead most of the time, other than we did charge the command module batteries up full at some point. I think we ...

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