Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

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Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

On October 11, 1968, the Apollo 7 mission launched from Cape Kennedy bound for low-Earth orbit to test the Apollo command and service module. It was the first of the famous Apollo series, which would ...