And they had to make this move without the equipment in the command module that kept the spacecraft on its flight path.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Finally,spacecraft commander Armstrong and NASA flight controllers agreed it was time to separate the lander module Eagle from the command module Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

This will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo command module.

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