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WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...

Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...

Michael Collins, the astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module of the Moon-landing Apollo 11 mission, died on April 28 at the age of 90. The ...

Michael Collins, who flew the spacecraft Columbia in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon 1969, has died at the age of 90. The astronaut's family released a statement ...

On May 13, 1964, NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape system could safely eject the Apollo command module in ...

History changed forever after Neil Armstrong said, 'The Eagle has landed,' but a new study suggests that part of the Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar Module (LM), once thought to have crashed on the moon, may ...

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To get astronauts to the Moon, Nasa had to build the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was just the rocket for the job. 111: Height of Saturn V rocket in metres On 16 July ...