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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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

To mark last month's 40th anniversary of the Apollo X "lunar landing dress rehearsal" mission, the Science Museum in London opened its command module Charlie Brown to visitors. This was a one-day only ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Launch for what would be termed Apollo 13 was set for April 11, 1970, and would use the same spacecraft configuration employed for the previous two missions. The crew for Apollo 13 consisted of ...

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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 ...