When first proposed in 1959, the spacecraft that would eventually become known as the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) was envisioned as a three-man Earth-orbital vehicle upgradable to ...

North American Aviation (NAA) was the prime contractor for the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM). In December 1965, the company's engineers briefed NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF) ...

America's first astronaut-ready spacecraft in eight years is currently being put through its paces in an unmanned test flight to the ISS, but 50 years ago, another spacecraft was undergoing an even ...