Mating Apollo Command Module to the Service Module

Mating Apollo Command Module to the Service Module

Mating Apollo Command Module to Service Module

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Fla.)

Cape Canaveral (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

An early mating of a test Apollo Command Module to the Service Module in Hangar AF in the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) industrial area. The Apollo Command Module was the crew cabin for the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM). The CSM, along with the Lunar Module (LM), was a spacecraft used during Project Apollo to land astronauts on the moon. It was used in nine manned space flights to the Moon aboard the Saturn V.

Original color photographic print, March 4, 1964: Larry Summers Collection.

1964-03-04

Digital reproduction of original color photographic print, March 4, 1964.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida\28.488682\-80.572874\1964-03-04\1964-03-04

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Copyright to this resource is held by Florida Space Coast History Project and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Contracting for the Command Module." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4205/ch2-5.html.

1 color photographic print