It's the only portion of the historic Apollo 11 spacecraft to return ... the mission on the body of the command module." You can also see the honeycombed steel structure that was impregnated ...

The Apollo 11 Command Module, "Columbia," was the living quarters for the three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar-landing mission. This Command Module, no. 107, manufactured by North ...

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice ... the most important part of the entire thing: the command module. It's the tiny, gumdrop-shaped vehicle sitting just below ...

The biggest artifact from Apollo 11 is the Columbia Command Module, which falls under the oversight of Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, who curates the Museum's social and cultural dimensions of ...

A rendering of the data shows the complex instrument panel and the cramped quarters inside the Apollo 11 Command Module. Digitization Program Office/SI Moving the artifact offers the museum a rare ...

E-mail Michael. The Apollo 11 command module Columbia has been on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum since 1970. But workers there have uncovered marks on the inside of the ...

The Apollo 11 command module Columbia is being prepared for a nationwide tour to the cities of Houston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Seattle, where it will serve as the centerpiece in an exhibit ...

the Apollo 11 command module Columbia will travel again. This time, the journey will not be quite as epic as to the moon and back, but the trip is still historic. The spacecraft will visit the ...

“Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission,” a new exhibit celebrating ... the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, including the command module Columbia, which orbited the moon while astronauts ...

For his second and final mission in space, Collins served as command module pilot for Apollo 11. Each Apollo mission had two spacecraft — a command module ("Columbia") and a lunar module ("Eagle").

Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer ...