Description
Once the S-IVB-510 (Saturn V, a launch vehicle) stage placed the spacecraft on a trajectory to the moon, the spacecraft-lunar module adapter panels would blossom outward 45 degrees (later they were discarded by explosion). The Apollo command and service modules would separate from the stage, pull away, turn around, dock with the lunar module, and then pull the Lunar Model away from the stage.
It was launched on July 26, 1971, and landed on the Lunar surface on July 29, 1971, where it remains today.