Apollo 11 Space Module
Apollo 11 space module Brand new in box.
Apollo 11 space module. Apollo 11 launch on 16 july 1969 american astronauts neil armstrong edwin buzz aldrin and michael collins lifted off from cape canaveral fla in the mammoth sized saturn v rocket on their way to the moon during the apollo 11 mission. Armstrong and lm pilot edwin e. Telecommunications included voice television data and tracking and ranging subsystems for communications between astronauts cm lm and earth. Experience apollo 11 in real time at this time 51 years ago.
Painstakingly built out of high quality materials with a wealth of detail have hand carved and hand painted each space capsule model with great concern for exact accuracy. The expendable single use spacecraft consisted of a combined command and service module csm and an apollo lunar module lm. It carried two astronauts commander neil a. Executive series display 1 25 scale nasa apollo 11 columbia command module desk top display model space capsule with base stand item e5625.
The apollo lunar module or simply lunar module lm ˈ l ɛ m originally designated the lunar excursion module lem was the lander spacecraft that was flown from lunar orbit to the moon s surface during the u s. 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. The apollo 11 command module columbia carried astronauts neil armstrong edwin buzz aldrin and michael collins to the moon and back on the first lunar landing mission in july 1969. Collins made two spaceflights.
Apollo 11 crew michael collins facts. Credit line transferred from the national aeronautics and space administration. The apollo 11 csm mass of 28 801 kg was the launch mass including propellants and expendables of this the command module cm 107 had a mass of 5557 kg and the service module sm 107 23 244 kg.