The astronauts would ride to the moon in the command module and then ride back to Earth in it.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

So we need something to direct it, but why couldn't that just be, one particular part of the body plays the part of the command module?

所以我们需要某个东西来引导,但是为什么不可能仅仅是,肉体某个特定的部分在扮演着,指挥舱的角色呢

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During the flight, they separated the lunar lander from the command module and flew it for eight hours.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

Later,the landing vehicle would carry them back to the command module for the return trip to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

On May twenty-third, the lander rejoined the command module one hundred kilometers above the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The crew moved back to the command module a few hours before landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

He was orbiting the moon in the command module Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Michael Collins was the pilot of the command module vehicle,Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Richard Gordon remained in the command module circling the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

It had three major parts. One was the command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Now,the command module of Apollo Thirteen headed alone toward Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Eagle moved into the orbit of the command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Richard Gordon was pilot of the command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The astronauts survived by rationing water and food while using the lunar lander as a lifeboat before returning to the command module for re-entry to Earth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Then they returned to the orbiting command module and started back to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

On the far side of the Moon, out of communication with mission controllers, the Eagle moon lander separated from the Apollo command module.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

More than 21 hours after their famous walk, astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin fired up the Eagle and rejoined Mike Collins aboard the Columbia command module for the flight back home.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16