Forty-six hours and 43 minutes into the flight of Apollo 13, Capcom Joe Kerwin had a mission update for commander Jim Lovell: “The spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we are concerned.

The rescue CSM would be a "Block II" spacecraft, much like the Apollo lunar CSMs. In late 1965, NAA expected to build a total of six Block I and Block II CSMs per year beginning in late 1966.

"Now you would have the command module flopping, hinged by the big umbilical between the two vehicles. Now you're dead," he says. "You're just hanging there and you can't orient the spacecraft… you ...

Though they spent the bulk of every Apollo mission mated as one spacecraft, the Apollo command-service module was actually two separate vehicles, only one of which came home.

The Space Restoration Society hopes to bring the famous LUT 1 back to life, and create from it a vertical time capsule of Apollo for the entire world to view. Related Tagged: ISS , U.S.