Apollo CSM
The Apollo spacecraft proper: a conical command module where three astronauts lived and which alone returned to Earth, joined to a cylindrical service module carrying the main engine, the oxygen and the fuel cells. The service module's engine braked the stack into lunar orbit and fired it home again. It flew from 1966 to 1975, through every Apollo Moon mission, the Skylab crews and the Apollo-Soyuz docking.
Key figures
- Builder
- North American Aviation
- Status
- Retired
- First flight
- 1966
- Last flight
- 1975
- Height
- 11 m
- Diameter
- 3.9 m
- Mass at launch
- 28.8 t
- Crew
- 3 seats
- Flights
- 19