Right after leaving Earth, Apollo 17’s Command and Service Module America flipped around to dock with the Lunar Module Challenger inside the Saturn upper stage. This sequence shows that approach and capture, the first step toward the last Apollo landing. Follow @spaceeves #Apollo17 #MoonLanding #SpaceHistory | SpaceEve

Apollo command and service module seperation. View from on board the top of the second stage (S-II) of Apollo 3s Saturn 1B rocket watching the third stage S-IVB J-2 engine burn to carry it and the unmanned Apollo Command and Service Modules into high Earth orbit for subsequent re-entry tests. Credit: NASA | Cosmoknowledge | Facebook

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484 reactions · 153 shares | Ever dream of going to space? How about flying back from the moon with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins? Today, Autodesk and the Smithsonian Air and Space museum opened up the Apollo 11 command module Columbia to 3D scan the inside of craft. With the help of Recap360 and Memento, you can virtually climb aboard and look around the only part of that historic mission to return to Earth. | Autodesk | Facebook

December 14th - on this day in 1972, NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt lifted off from the surface of the Moon onboard Apollo lunar module Challenger's ascent stage, docking to Apollo command and service module America, piloted by Ronald Evans, approx. two hours later. No humans have visited the Moon since then, 53 years ago. The Apollo 17 Command Module is on display at Space Center Houston. The video was taken using a camera on the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and was remotely

24K views · 601 reactions | Fifty years ago today, on Aug. 2, 1971, a...