Barely 12 minutes after launch the spacecraft was in orbit. After one and a half orbits of Earth during which all the spacecraft’s systems were checked to ensure that they worked properly, the third stage of the Saturn V was fired to send Apollo on its outward journey to the Moon. Shortly afterwards, the Command\ Service Module unit (the Command Module was called Columbia) separated from the Saturn third stage, turned around and connected nose to nose with the Lunar Module that had been stored in the top of the third stage, below the Command and Service modules. Then, with the Lunar Module (called Eagle) attached to its nose, Columbia drew away from the third stage and continued towards the Moon. On nearing the Moon 2 1\2 days later, Apollo fired its Service Module rocket to go into lunar orbit.|
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