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As spacecraft, like the Apollo Command Module depicted in this artist's concept, enter the atmosphere, a plasma sheath engulfs them that can cut off communication signals with the ground. Disclaimer: ...

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WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...

Using the lunar module as a lifeboat and employing techniques never before considered, the astronauts’ ordeal ended triumphantly Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 17, 1970, the parachutes ...

Command Module pilot Michael Collins practices in the CM simulator on June 19, 1969, at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA This op-ed originally appeared in the July 16, 2019 special Apollo 11 at 50 ...

On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module ...

A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...