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Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a 'successful failure'

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...
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Command Module, Apollo 6

Click to open image viewer. The unmanned Apollo 6 Command Module (CM 020) was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1968 and recovered in the Pacific Ocean 10 hours later. The mission was the ...
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Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a 'successful failure'

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...

What Was the Apollo 11 Spacecraft Like? Climb Inside in 3D

But it was a magnificent ship too—none more so than the Apollo that got the numeral 11. That, of course, is the one that ...
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Astronaut Walt Cunningham, who test-flew Apollo 7 command module, dies at 90

Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham's death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by his ...
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Command Module, Apollo 11

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