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Click to open image viewer. Apollo 8 was launched on December 21, 1968, and was the first manned Saturn V launch. The crew was Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot was James Lovell, and the ...

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: ...

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 ...