Ed Smylie, the NASA engineer who helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 95. In dramatic moments made famous ...

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets look slow by comparison.

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man". When you ...

The Apollo 11 crew included 38-year-old commander ... whose job was to navigate and stay on board the command module. The men strapped in the service module Columbia, which also carried ...

The Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 16. Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins, the command module pilot, made the Apollo 11 crew. The mission from ...

The Apollo 11 Command Module as it’s being lowered to the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet on July 24, 1969. The flotation ring, which had been put on by Navy divers, had just been removed. Capcom ...

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In the case of the Apollo 11 Ascent Stage, which carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from the surface of the Moon to rendezvous with the Command Module Columbia, it was assumed that after it ...

On July 21, 1969, Apollo 11’s Eagle lunar ascent stage lifted off from the surface of the Moon to rendezvous with the command module Columbia in orbit. After docking, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ...