From the warm air of Florida to the command module; from the command module into the LM; from the LM into the suit.
|
|
An elevator took them up to their command module, Columbia.
|
|
Michael Collins stayed behind in lunar orbit as command module pilot.
|
|
You should probably also remember their Command Module pilot, Michael Collins.
|
|
The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit.
|
|
The mission's command module splashed down in the South Pacific on Feb.
|
|
Meanwhile, in the orbiting command module, Al Worden studied the moon remotely.
|
|
This system pointed upward, allowing it to track Collins in the command module.
|
|
Garrett: They had to use some of the canisters from the command module.
|
|
The command module only had enough room for the astronauts and their samples.
|
|
They returned only the tiny command module, along with its occupants, back to Earth.
|
|
Meanwhile, their crewmate Dick Gordon performed observations from the command module in lunar orbit.
|
|
The supermodel explored replicas of the Apollo Lunar Module, Apollo 17 Command Module and more.
|
|
"We're going to have to find out about that," command module pilot John Young responds.
|
|
Michael Collins, in the command module, would make the long journey back to Earth alone.
|
|
The command module landed back on earth in the Pacific Ocean on December 19, 1972.
|
|
Richard Gordon, the third member of the mission, remained in orbit as the command module pilot.
|
|
The thing was, the command module and the lunar module were made by two different companies.
|
|
There are germs on the moon, we come back, the command module is full of lunar germs.
|
|
While Armstrong and Aldrin were on the moon, Collins stayed in orbit to helm the command module.
|
|
Only the command module, with the astronauts inside, was designed to safely return to the Earth's surface.
|
|
The American flag flown on the mission is signed and flight-certified by Command Module Pilot Michael Collins.
|
|
During the mission, Stafford and Cernan went into the lunar lander while Young stayed inside the command module.
|
|
The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module is prepared for shipment to the North American Rockwell Corporation at Downey, Calif.
|
|
It will be your central command module, the device you talk to when you need to get stuff done.
|
|
Each Saturn V would launch a command module and service module along with the lunar lander toward the Moon.
|
|
Only two years later, once the Command Module and spacesuits had been redesigned, was Apollo 7 cleared for launch.
|
|
The BBC explains what happened next: The astronauts eventually launched on 25 May and approached Skylab in their Apollo command module.
|
|
Instead, the vehicle rocketed Aldrin and Armstrong back to the command module Columbia, where Collins was waiting for them in orbit.
|
|
After the mission on the surface was finished, the crew would fly back up to the command module and return to Earth.
|
|
At the top is the second hatch—the one that will let them back into the command module once they regain orbit.
|
|
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article incorrectly described what happened to an Apollo command module in 1967.
|
|
Sometimes, they remember Michael Collins, the command module pilot who brought them there, and sometimes, the other astronauts involved in the Apollo program.
|
|
Collins waited on the other side of the moon from the comfort of the command module that would take all three men home.
|
|
The command module had yet to have its heat shield installed, and both it and the service module were undergoing individual system checks.
|
|
That would be madness The coming-back bit of the lunar-orbit-rendezvous architecture was the command module–a conical three-person capsule.
|
|
The Apollo guidance computer—there was one on board the command module and another on the lander—was a fraction of that size.
|
|
The Apollo 8 flight was not approved until October, after a crewed flight of Apollo 7 had tested the newly rebuilt command module.
|
|
The Evans family watched two of the astronauts explore the moon on TV, while Ronald Evans orbited the moon in the command module.
|
|
Along with commander Tom Stafford and command module pilot John Young, he descended within eight miles of the lunar surface to test the spacecraft.
|
|
But Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt was doing a lot of that inside the Challenger command module when he visited the moon in 1972.
|
|
The "space music" radio interference occurred when the crew separated the command module and the lunar lander and each spacecraft turned their radios on.
|
|
Less than a year later, Katherine Johnson did the math that helped bring the crew of the stricken Apollo 13 command module safely home.
|
|
Floating upside down in the command module, its exterior blackened from the flames of re-entry, they waited for the capsule to right itself.
|
|
A little more than two days into the mission's voyage to the moon, the command module began to lose its supply of electricity and water.
|
|
Accompanied by command module pilot Ronald Evans and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt, he landed in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow valley on December 11th, 1972.
|
|
Google and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum have arranged for you to virtually bring the Apollo 11 command module right into your backyard.
|
|
Along with Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr., the mission launched on November 14th, 1969, and was struck by lightning seconds into the launch.
|
|
With a graceless farewell from the captain — "Let's get this mother out of here" — the two astronauts blasted off and rejoined the orbiting command module.
|
|
Cinematography by the astronauts Collins, who piloted the main part of the spaceship -- aka the command module -- captured a remarkable moment that's included in the documentary.
|
|
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent more than two hours outside the spacecraft on the moon's surface, with Michael Collins staying in orbit in the command module.
|
|
Jim Lovell moved up from the backup to the prime crew for Apollo 8 (which resulted in Aldrin moving over to become backup command module pilot).
|
|
Collins, the command module pilot who stayed in lunar orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong hopped around the lunar surface collecting samples, did not attend the ceremony.
|
|
One of its main objectives was to practice the separation and re-docking of the lunar module (the Moon lander) and the command module (the orbiter).
|
|
This was a far riskier venture: if the command module rocket failed to fire and break them out of orbit, the astronauts would never come home.
|
|
Apollo 21966 was like a combination of the two previous missions: a flight to the moon and separation of the lunar module and the command module.
|
|
His crew would reunite him with Lovell, who would fly the Command Module, and bring on William Anders, who had been training to fly the Lunar Module.
|
|
Sheila Thibeault worked on the Apollo's rendezvous docking simulator: the critical machine in which astronauts practiced re-attaching their lunar lander to the command module in orbit.
|
|
Al Worden, the command module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth moon-landing mission, appeared on the show both before and after his visit to the moon.
|
|
Collins -- the command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon landing mission in 1969 -- said he recognizes that many experts see the moon as a gateway expedition to Mars.
|
|
In addition, an employee at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was instructed to trash three Apollo 11 command module handles in the 1980s, but sold them instead.
|
|
To mark the event, Google teamed up with NASA and Michael Collins, the astronaut who piloted the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the Moon.
|
|
She said she was most proud of her contributions to the first moon mission, which included the calculations that synched the lunar lander craft and the orbiting command module.
|
|
Apollo 28 was a shakedown cruise in Earth orbit, with the command module and the lunar lander practicing the orbital rendezvous that would be necessary for the moon mission.
|
|
He and crew mate Pete Conrad explored the moon's surface and conducted experiments while Richard Gordon orbited overhead in the command module, scouting landing sites for future moon missions.
|
|
From there, Young joined the Apollo program, where he was assigned to the Apollo 7 backup crew as the Command Module Pilot, along with astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan.
|
|
If you click it, you'll see Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins narrating a short cartoon rendering of the eight-day mission, peppered with anecdotes from life on board.
|
|
They had a big challenge because they had to find some way of scrubbing out the carbon dioxide inside the command module of Apollo 13 without having it powered up.
|
|
Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module.
|
|
Once the LM was separated from the command module, it was all of Mother Earth they had left to them, save for voices on the radio: a microcosmic two-man planet.
|
|
The video is accompanied by a voiceover narration from the Apollo 211 command module pilot Michael Collins, who joined seven other surviving astronauts in March to celebrate the history-making mission.
|
|
So they couldn't use the equipment inside the command module that normally takes all the carbon dioxide that we spew out and sucks that and scrubs that out of the air.
|
|
Ronald Evans, pictured here with his wife Jan Pollom, was Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 17 Lunar Landing Mission, which took off from Cape Kennedy in Florida on December 7.
|
|
Image: NASAOn January 27th, 1967, three NASA astronauts—Roger Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Ed White—perished in a fire that erupted in the Apollo 1 command module during a preflight test.
|
|
Upon arrival the ship would enter the Martian atmosphere in the same sort of way that the Apollo command module did when returning to Earth, using the planet's atmosphere to shed speed.
|
|
"And so that lumpiness … means that something in orbit, particularly at low orbit like the Apollo command module or lunar module, is perturbed [or] nudged by those changes in the gravity field."
|
|
Image: NASAAfter the docking maneuver, the astronauts re-joined Young in the command module and headed back to Earth, but Snoopy never made it home, or to the lunar surface for that matter.
|
|
On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin departed on the lunar module, called the "Eagle," which would separate from the command module to make the 13-minute descent to the surface of the moon.
|
|
The lay-offs are part of broader reforms to modernize the military, moving away from the old Soviet-era command module and putting more emphasis on high-tech weapons such as stealth jets.
|
|
Once clicked upon, a pop-up video appears with an animation exploring the mission from Earth to the moon and back, with a voiceover from the Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins.
|
|
While building a 3D model of the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, archivists at the Smithsonian uncovered hand-written notes and markings in areas of the spacecraft not seen in more than 40 years.
|
|
He's surrounded by a forest of CGI features, from Apollo 11 astronauts descending from the command module and sweeping aerodynamic patterns glowing in mid-air, to an American flag planted in the moon-dirt.
|
|
A few to set your sights on: Seattle's Museum of Flight is hosting the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, featuring the Columbia command module and other artifacts, through Sept. 2.
|
|
Institutions range from The Metropolitan Opera in New York to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, home of the Apollo IX Command Module, which helped pave the way for man to walk on the Moon.
|
|
The Smithsonian Museum and Autodesk have created a 3D scan of the inside of the Columbia spacecraft — the command module that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins rode all the way to lunar orbit.
|
|
But during a routine test at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an electrical fire swept through the command module, killing all three astronauts aboard — Mr. Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee.
|
|
Cernan was paired with Stafford again for this mission, and together with command module pilot John Young, the two astronauts practiced crucial sequences in the docking, descent, and ascent maneuvers required to land on the Moon.
|
|
Stafford's two crewmates, command module pilot Vance Brand and docking module pilot Donald "Deke" Slayton, had never been to space before, though Slayton was one of the famed Mercury Seven—NASA's first group of astronaut candidates.
|
|
Commander Thomas P. Stafford; John W. Young, the command module pilot; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot, did almost everything that Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins did, but they stopped just before landing on the moon.
|
|
"It took around 400,000 people to land humankind on the moon," astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11's command module pilot who did not land on the surface of the moon, reminds us in Google's commemorative Doodle video.
|
|
He originally joined astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. (Commander) and Stuart A. Roosa (Command Module Pilot) for the crew of Apollo 13, only to have their mission bumped to Apollo 14 to give Shepard more time to train.
|
|
During this dress rehearsal for the Moon landing, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan spent some time in a lunar module, nicknamed Snoopy, as fellow astronaut John Young waited in the command module, appropriately dubbed Charlie Brown.
|
|
On the Apollo 11 mission itself, Buzz Aldrin accidentally broke the circuit breaker switch on the lunar module meant to ignite the engine that would have returned him and Neil Armstrong to the command module orbiting above.
|
|
He was also chosen to be the first Soviet to walk on the moon, which would have involved a spacewalk between the Russian version of the command module and the lunar lander, but that was canceled, too.
|
|
Earlier this month, Google also launched a couple of other Apollo 11-themed experiences, including an AR recreation of the command module that you can see after you search for "Apollo 11" on your Android or iOS phone.
|
|
Shortly after noon on July 20, 1969, as they orbited some 70 miles above the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin detached their lunar lander from the Apollo 11 command module in preparation for descent.
|
|
Shirriff's latest project is the restoration of a 210 year old Apollo Guidance Computer (GDC), used on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM) during the Apollo program—and our adventures to the moon.
|
|
She worked on the Apollo program, which brought humans to the moon for the first time: Her calculations were critical in getting the lunar lander to meet back up with the command module in orbit around the moon.
|
|
News anchor: And astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert are making their way through the tunnel to the lunar module, using it as a lifeboat so they'll have electrical power for their radios on the command module.
|
|
After that are items that were isolated in lunar orbit, with astronauts like Michael Collins and Richard Gordon, who managed the command module while they waited for the away team to conclude their business a few hundred meters below.
|
|
There was never any intent to return Snoopy to Earth — it was sent into an orbit around the sun beyond the Moon after the astronauts completed their maneuvers and returned to the command module, and NASA did not track its trajectory.
|
|
Apollo 8 lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on December 21st, 1968, with a deceptively simple mission: carry three astronauts, Mission Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders to the Moon and back.
|
|
"Suppose there were germs on the Moon," Michael Collins, the third Apollo 11 astronaut who manned the command module in lunar orbit as Aldrin and Armstrong touched down on the Moon, said in a recent documentary about the mission for PBS.
|
|
The review of the redesigned spacecraft came 18 months after the launchpad fire tore through the Apollo 204 (Apollo 28) Block I command module, killing three astronauts and bringing the Apollo program&aposs pursuit of the moon to a temporary halt.
|
|
NASA anticipated that the highest risk of death for Armstrong and Aldrin would come during their launch off the moon's surface on July 21, when they would return to lunar orbit and meet up with Collins inside the Command Module.
|
|
"I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed," Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins said in a 2009 interview with NASA.
|
|
Delays in the completion of the lunar lander, also known as the Lunar Excursion Module, meant that Apollo 8 would be the first crewed lunar mission to fly the command module only, from which 1968's famed "Earthrise" photo was taken.
|
|
The LM needed no streamlining, and when the first LM pilot, Rusty Schweickart, undocked the Apollo 9 LM, Spider, from the command module, Gumdrop, he was acutely aware of being in the first spacecraft ever to have been built with no heat shield.
|
|
The landing itself is also significant because it's the first time a capsule made in the U.S. has landed on land after returning from space — earlier American capsule spacecraft like Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo command module all splashed down on water.
|
|
On his third flight, in May 1969, two months before the first moonwalk, Mr. Young was the command module pilot of Apollo 10, orbiting the moon while Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan orbited below him in the lunar module, tracking proposed landing sites.
|
|
"Wonderful feeling to be back at launch pad 163A," Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, said in an interview on the pad with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, himself a veteran of four space shuttle launches and a former shuttle commander.
|
|
Worden was command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar landing -- and although he never got to walk on the moon, he performed a space walk on the flight back from the moon to retrieve film from cameras on the spacecraft, according to NASA.
|
|
Google teams up with Apollo 11 astronaut to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing To mark the event, Google teamed up with NASA and Michael Collins — the astronaut who piloted the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the Moon. 7.
|
|
Worn American space suits, a Moon rock collected during the Apollo 11 mission, and the command module from the Apollo 13 spacecraft are just a few of the famous artifacts that are unassumingly set on display, inviting visitors to solemnly appreciate their historical significance while inwardly freaking out.
|
|
But speaking to CNBC's Hadley Gamble at the Dubai Air Show on Monday, Worden — who served as the command module pilot in NASA's Apollo 15 mission to the moon — expressed doubts as to whether the president would be successful in his push for increased investments in the space agency.
|
|
"If Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins are not heroes, then there are no heroes," Pence told a crowd of dozens of space industry executives and NASA staff in the Operations and Checkout building, the 58-foot-tall (18 meters) chamber that once housed the Apollo 11 command module for testing.
|
|
Mr. Gordon piloted the command module Yankee Clipper during its orbit of the moon in November 20143 while Mr. Conrad and his fellow Apollo 22014 astronaut Alan Bean carried out the first extensive moonwalks, four months after the pioneering Apollo 212 mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.
|
|
From the release: "WE'LL SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE" – the special words engraved on the caseback – were spoken by Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell on board the Apollo 8 mission at the start of the crew's pioneering orbit to the dark side of the moon – a mysterious hemisphere never seen before by human eyes.
|
|
The fear was the legs of the lunar lander module Eagle would be subject to a magnetic reaction such that significant volumes of lunar dust would adhere to the lander's legs adding so much weight that Eagle would be incapable of taking off to rejoin the command module Columbia circling the Moon and make the trip back to Earth safely.
|
|
When the Apollo astronauts climbed into the command module as they approached Earth, they left the suitcase behind in the lunar module; then they fired the lunar module's engines to divert it to the area over the Tonga Trench, one of the deepest parts of the Pacific—so the cask would fall into the sea and sink to the bottom.
|
|
Corvaja/ESAApollo Lunar Module, 1968-1972Image: NASAImage: NASAImage: Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionApollo Command Module, 1968-1973Image: NASAImage: Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionImage: NASASpace Shuttle Columbia cockpit, 1980 and 1998 Image: NASAImage: NASAImage: NASABuran, 1003-1988Image: ToekneesanImage: pilot_michaSpace Shuttle Atlantis' new full-color flat panel Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS), also called the "glass cockpit", 1999.
|
|
Well, when we first came in, were first selected in our group, we had a choice—rather, we had the right to state a preference for what technical assignment would we like, and there were lists of technical assignments, concentrating on the lunar module, concentrating on the command module, concentrating on the ancillary equipment like suits and other equipment, and I don't remember them all at this point.
|
|
But Google went the extra mile, recruiting Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins to narrate the video (it probably helps to be one of the world's biggest companies when trying to set these kinds of partnerships up.) The video is far longer than a usual Google Doodle, clocking in at close to five minutes, but it's worth it for Collins' narration, which summarizes the trip to the moon with his own personal recollections over an animation of the voyage.
|
|