Apollo command and service module facts for kids

The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two spacecraft, along with the Lunar Module, used for the United States Apollo program which landed astronauts on the Moon. It was built for NASA by North American Aviation. It was launched by itself on three suborbital and low Earth orbit Apollo test missions using the Saturn I launch vehicle. It was also launched twelve times on the larger Saturn V launch vehicle, both by itself and with the Lunar Module. It made a total of nine manned flights to the Moon boosted by the Saturn V.

Images for kids

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  Command module interior arrangement

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  Command module reentering the atmosphere at a non-zero angle of attack in order to establish a lifting entry and control the landing site (artistic rendition)

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  Scale model of the Apollo command and service module at the Euro Space Center in Belgium

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  The Apollo 15 Command Module splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, 1971.

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  Main control panel

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  Guidance and navigation equipment

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  Apollo 14 command module Kitty Hawk at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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  Apollo 15 command module Endeavour at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio

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  Block II service module interior components

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  Apollo Service Module Propulsion System

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  RCS quad containing four R-4D thrusters, as used on the Apollo Service Module

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  Three of these fuel cells supplied electric power to the spacecraft on lunar flights.

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  VHF scimitar antennas mounted on the Service Module.

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  Apollo CSM in white for a Skylab mission, docked to the Skylab space station

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  Block I command module exterior

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  Block I service module interior components

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  World map showing locations of Apollo command and service modules (along with other hardware).

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In Spanish: Módulo de mando y servicio para niños