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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 ...

On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module ...

Columbus-born astronaut Donn Eisele was key to the Apollo 7 flight crew, but mission tensions and personal struggles made him ...

Click to open image viewer. This Apollo command module pressure model was part of a larger grouping built and used for wind tunnel testing conducted in the development stage of the Apollo program. The ...

Overview of the Apollo mission sequence—from Saturn V launch to lunar landing and splashdown. Launch (Saturn V): - Saturn V placed the Apollo spacecraft into Earth orbit. - There were 13 successful ...

Click to open image viewer. Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission of Project Apollo. It was launched by a Saturn V on December 7, 1972, carrying Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot ...

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 ...