Apollo Command/Service Module

venus, and also to the moon. The three most famous missions were Apollo 11, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13. There was a reason that Apollo 13 was memorable. They did not land on the moon or discover new beings, but it is remembered because a huge accident that caused all in America to lean forward in their seats and pray for a miracle that the mission would be saved and three special men would come home safely. In April 1970 the Apollo 13 mission, with Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, was…

Apollo 13: The Story of a Successful Failure in Space Exploration ?Houston, we?ve had a problem.? This iconic phrase was uttered by Jim Lovell after an explosion occurred during his Apollo 13 mission and it appeared that all pre-launch fears that the mission was cursed were coming true. Lovell, Apollo 13?s commander, was not the original commander for the mission. Rather, Lovell was slated to fly Apollo 14 when the original commander of Apollo 13, Alan Shepard, became ill. Not wanting to…

Apollo 11 was the space flight that landed the first humans on the moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first astronauts involved. Mr Armstrong was the first to step onto the MOON the 21st of July at 2:56 UTC. They collected 21.5 kg of lunar material to take back to earth. There was also another astronaut called Michael Collins who piloted the command spacecraft by himself until Armstrong and Aldrin returned a day later to go back to earth. These were the first astronauts to…

moon landing had many important factors, which made it such an extraordinary moment in time. For this whole event to occur, a well-equipped space shuttle was needed. That shuttle was Apollo 11. The service module contained oxygen, water, and electric power for the command module. During the journey to and from the Moon, Columbia, the main room, similar to a living room, had a space about as big as a large vehicle. It served as main room for the…

started the Space Race, and one of the biggest leaps for humanity. We have been nearly oblivious to what has happened in the space race, including why the race to the moon became big and fast at that, what other smaller successes were, and what the Apollo program was like. The Moon and the Space Race blew up around the mid 1900’s, but it wasn't just Sputnik that started the space race, it was a mess of proposals, orders, and challenges. The space race started during the Cold War, when the US…

Everything was done the same they just did not perform the lunar landing, NASA wanted to see if everything could support a mission to the moon. One of his most well known missions was Apollo 16, this mission’s purpose was lunar exploration. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and landed on the moon on April 21, this was the fifth mission where people had walked on the moon. On this mission Young was Spacecraft Commander, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke were the…

influence and primary objective of this mission was created by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The mission carried three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon. The first steps on the Moon were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, with Michael Collins commanding the module. The Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing, had a significant effect on America, changing its culture…

ability to change orbit and flight path were an important part of later missions. This mission made him the first person in NASA to be in space twice. Grissom also invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller which was used to help push the Apollo and Gemini spacecrafts in the…

Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, with a weight of 170,000 pounds (77,111 kg). Lifting Skylab into low earth orbit was the final mission and launch of a Saturn V…

Thinking of NASA’s greatest accomplishments in the past, and the Apollo 11 mission might come up. Other countries worked diligently to reach the same accomplishment that NASA had; but the race to the moon was ultimately reached by the United States. Which makes one of the reasons why the United States is the leader in space exploration. it is because of NASA’s projects, advancements, and accomplishments, NASA was the catalyst that allowed the United States to be the leader in space…