On the Apollo missions what was the contingency plan if an astronaut died in space? Would the body have been stored somewhere in the Command Module? How would his duties have been fulfilled?

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The short answer is that they didn't seem to have a plan for the death of a single astronaut, just critical mission failures.

As you will recall William Safire wrote a contingency speech for Nixon should the Apollo 11 mission end in failure. In his book "Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House" (Transaction Publishers, 2005) Safire recounts a conversation with Frank Borman, an astronaut on board the Apollo 8 mission.

Shortly before the actual landing, Borman encourages the administration to make plans in the event of mission failure; something Safire says had not been considered. If the administration had not even considered what to do about mission failure until (roughly) a month before the actual landing, it seems unlikely that they had plans to handle individual deaths.

If fact, it's not until the 2000's that NASA commissions a study on how to store a body for return to Earth. Here are two articles on the current thoughts on the question:

Business Insider

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