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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
command module
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beneath them the underside of the command module comprised a specially designed shield that protected them from the heat of re-entry.
▪ Figure 4.21 A view of the Skylab station from the command module used in the third and final mission.
▪ Figure 5.5 Stages in the construction of a command module.
▪ In the film there is a nice sequence shot out of one of the command module windows.
▪ The command module also had provision for storing an emergency water supply added.
▪ The command module would then use its parachutes to land.
▪ Their role was to pull the main three-parachute system from the command module.
WordNet
command module

n. a space module in which astronauts can live and control the spacecraft and communicate with earth

Wikipedia
Command module

Command module may refer to:

  • The Apollo Command Module, the crew cabin used in the Apollo program designed specifically to return through the atmosphere to a water landing
  • The Crew Module of the Orion spacecraft, designed to function similarly to the Apollo Command Module
  • An electronic control unit used to control a motor vehicle system or subsystem

Usage examples of "command module".

His gloved fingers clumsy with the switches, Dana began to reconnect the Command Module's systems from Bus A onto Bus B.

The line was loaded with a scrap of Command Module aluminum, and the depth was marked out by simple knots in the steel cable.

And nobody was sure what would happen if those straps failed to sever, and a Command Module finished up carrying a PAM-D, partially expended, through the fires of entry.

Their command and service module was built in Downey, California, by an independent branch of North American and was broken down into two intricately related parts: the command module in which the men lived, and the service module which kept most of the gear out of the way.

Leaving his helmet in the airlock, he tramped the length of the command module to the cockpit.

That was the Apollo Command Module, waiting in orbit to take them home.

The Cross sustained a lot of computer damage when the Command Module blew.

The lander was the size and shape of an old Apollo command module.