How to Use command module in a Sentence

command module

noun

• The crew then closed the hatch and the command module returned to Earth.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2021
• Too low, and the (command module) could flip over, pointed end facing down, and would burn up.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• But a man with that name was already sitting in the command module next to Wilmore.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021
• But the lunar lander, docked to the command module, was intact.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• Collins waited on the other side of the moon from the comfort of the command module that would take all three men home.
  — Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries, CNN, 19 July 2019
• Collins spent the eight-day mission piloting the command module.
  — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Collins spent the eight-day mission piloting the command module,.
  — Jessica Gresko, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Swigert flipped switches inside the command module.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• With the post-fire changes to the command module, Low felt like the capsule was coming together.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• Ronald Evans, also a Navy captain, was the pilot of the command module.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
• Someone had to stay in the command module, 60 miles above the barren surface of the Moon.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The next time the crew saw the command module and lunar module equipment was in the altitude chambers.
  — Kathryn Tully, Smithsonian, 1 Apr. 2012
• Ronald Evans, also a Navy captain, was the pilot of the command module.
  — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• On the third day of the mission, an onboard explosion knocked out power and oxygen in the command module.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• But three hours into the test flight, a fire swept through the launchpad's command module, trapping and killing the astronauts.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 4 June 2022
• Soon, maneuvering back up to the command module and docking, the crew of three was together again.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017
• Buzz’’ Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Michael Collins did not get to step on the Moon but was on the command module as the pilot orbiting the Moon.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
• There were big problems with the design of the lunar lander, which also acted as a lifeboat in case something went wrong with the command module.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2018
• Some early reports indicated that the fire started in the service module and then spread to the command module.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
• The power-up was required to get the command module ready to bring the astronauts through the last leg of the mission, through the atmosphere to a splashdown.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• He was supposed to be command module pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned flight to circle the moon, but was bumped because of a bone spur in his neck.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2019
• While Armstrong and Aldrin are on the surface, the skipper of the command module will wait for them in orbit around the Moon.
  — Houston Chronicle, 21 July 2019
• But Duke and Young’s trip to the surface was delayed by six hours when an engine problem was detected on the command module.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• Engineer John Houbolt pushed for a smaller ship to land on the lunar surface while the command module stayed in orbit around the moon.
  — Christine Herman, Scientific American, 20 July 2019
• The crew-carrying command modules will also use the same style of heat shield used by the Apollo missions to get crews safely back to Earth.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• Fingernail-sized latches on the docking probe used to connect the command module to the lunar module failed to catch, and the two spacecraft were unable to dock.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
• Coverage extended from the time the men entered the command module during the space flight and through the recovery of the lunar capsule.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 20 July 2019
• The crew has less than an hour to evacuate the command module Odyssey into the lunar module Aquarius, using it as a lifeboat.
  — ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025
• The fire, the spokesman said, started in the interior of the conical command module and was confined within the cabin section.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026