Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt from paragraph 1.
Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971, on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above in the command module.
What is the meaning of the phrase command module as it is used in the excerpt?
A.
the detachable part of a spacecraft
B.
a satellite designed to orbit the Moon
C.
a satellite designed to hold a human astronaut
D.
the part of a spacecraft that contains support systems