Crewed spacecraftRetired
Apollo command and service module
Crewed lunar and Earth-orbit spacecraft
The Apollo command and was the crew spacecraft used for Apollo Earth-orbit, lunar-orbit, lunar-landing support, Skylab ferry, and Apollo-Soyuz missions. It carried crews through the defining Apollo-era missions now being added to the archive.
Crewed spacecraft dossier
Flight profile
- Mission duration
- Varied by mission; longest crewed CSM flight in this archive set was Skylab 2 at 28 days, 49 minutes, 49 seconds
Vehicle record
- Manufacturer
- North American Aviation / North American Rockwell
- Flights
- Crewed Apollo CSM flights from Apollo 7 through Apollo-Soyuz, plus Skylab ferry missions
- First flight
- Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968
- Final flight
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, July 15-24, 1975
- Status
- Retired after Apollo-Soyuz
People Who Flew Aboard This Spacecraft
Edward Higgins White IIApollo 1 / Senior Pilot / N/A
Roger B. ChaffeeApollo 1 / Pilot / N/A
Virgil Ivan GrissomApollo 1 / Command Pilot / N/A
Donn F. EiseleApollo 7 / Command Module Pilot / October 11-22, 1968
Walter CunninghamApollo 7 / Lunar Module Pilot / October 11-22, 1968
Walter Marty Schirra Jr.Apollo 7 / Commander / October 11-22, 1968
Frank BormanApollo 8 / Commander / December 21-27, 1968
James Arthur Lovell Jr.Apollo 8 / Command Module Pilot / December 21-27, 1968; Apollo 13 / Commander / April 11-17, 1970
William A. AndersApollo 8 / Lunar Module Pilot / December 21-27, 1968
Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.Apollo 11 / Lunar Module Pilot / July 16-24, 1969
Michael CollinsApollo 11 / Command Module Pilot / July 16-24, 1969
Neil A. ArmstrongApollo 11 / Commander / July 16-24, 1969
Fred Wallace Haise Jr.Apollo 13 / Lunar Module Pilot / April 11-17, 1970
John Leonard Swigert Jr.Apollo 13 / Command Module Pilot / April 11-17, 1970
Charles Conrad Jr.Skylab 2 / Commander / May 25-June 22, 1973
Joseph P. KerwinSkylab 2 / Science Pilot / May 25-June 22, 1973
Paul J. WeitzSkylab 2 / Pilot / May 25-June 22, 1973
Alexey LeonovApollo-Soyuz Test Project
Donald Kent SlaytonApollo-Soyuz Test Project / Docking Module Pilot / July 15-24, 1975
Thomas P. StaffordApollo-Soyuz Test Project / Commander / July 15-24, 1975
Valeri KubasovApollo-Soyuz Test Project
Vance D. BrandApollo-Soyuz Test Project / Command Module Pilot / July 15-24, 1975Photo Archive
Documented views of this individual vehicle, with source and credit retained alongside each image.