Three hours and 24 minutes after the launch of Apollo 11, the command module Columbia docks nose-to-nose with the lunar module Eagle. Christopher Riley, author of the new Haynes guide to Apollo 11, ...

Months of gruelling training exercises paid off for NASA on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The historic mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins safely ...

Click to open image viewer. As part of the Apollo program, a number of so-called "boilerplate" (BP) command modules were constructed to undergo various tests and to serve as training vehicles for ...

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