Apollo boilerplate to be centrepiece of Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibition

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...
Purdue University

Apollo capsule makes a journey to new space

Workers move a full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into place inside the atrium of Purdue's Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Wednesday (Oct. 17). The capsule, on loan from the ...
Purdue University

Apollo module replica taking shape

Purdue workers move one piece of the full-scale replica of the Apollo 1 command module into the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on Tuesday (Oct. 9). The capsule, on loan from the Kansas Cosmosphere ...
Miami Herald

‘Fire in the cockpit.’ A 1967 tragedy taught NASA how to put a man on the moon

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil ...
Space.com

Astronaut Walt Cunningham, who test-flew Apollo 7 command module, dies at 90

Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham's death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by his ...