- a module used as the control room and living quarters in a spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
command′ mod′ule,
- Aerospace(often caps.) [U.S. Aerospace.]the portion of the Apollo spacecraft that contained the crew's living compartment and the on-board controls.
- 1960–65
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command module n
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