Apollo Space Capsule
The apollo program was conceived during the eisenhower administration in early 1960 as a follow up to project mercury.
Apollo space capsule. The expendable spacecraft consisted of a combined command and service module and an apollo lunar module. Two additional components complemented the spacecraft stack for space vehicle assembly. The apollo spacecraft was composed of three parts designed to accomplish the american apollo program s goal of landing astronauts on the moon by the end of the 1960s and returning them safely to earth.
While the mercury capsule could support only one astronaut on a limited earth orbital mission apollo would carry three. The apollo command module capsules are on display at various sites throughout the u s. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the moon.
Commander neil armstrong and lunar module pilot buzz aldrin formed the american crew that landed the apollo lunar module eagle on july 20 1969 at 20 17 utc. The cm 012 capsule better known as apollo 1 was destroyed in a fire while conducting tests on the launch pad. The apollo command and service module csm was one of two principal components of the united states apollo spacecraft used for the apollo program which landed astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972.
The apollo lunar modules were deliberately targeted to impact the moon to provide artificial moonquake sources for seismic experiments. Space center houston nasa johnson space center houston tx the apollo 11 command module columbia is on display in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the national air and space museum in washington dc. Block 2 spacecraft block 2 command modules included many improvements over the earlier models.