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Apollo CSM Block I

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Apollo CSM Block 1
Apollo CSM Block 1
View of Spacecraft 012 Command Module during pre-shipping operations
Credit: NASA

American manned spacecraft. The Apollo Command Service Module was the spacecraft developed by NASA in the 1960's as a standard spacecraft for earth and lunar orbit missions.

Block I command service modules, which lacked forward docking tunnels and hatches, never flew manned after the Apollo 204 fire killed its crew on the pad.

Crew Size: 3. Habitable Volume: 6.17 m3. RCS total impulse: 3,774 kgf-sec. Spacecraft delta v: 2,804 m/s (9,199 ft/sec). Electric System: 690.00 kWh. Electric System: 6.30 average kW.

Country
USA
Engines
AJ10-137
Launch Vehicles
Saturn I
Propellants
N2O4/UDMH
Bibliography
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