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On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about ...
Forty years ago this week, mankind's attempts to land on the Moon took a giant leap forward with the maiden spaceflight of the Apollo Lunar Module. Continuing his series of essays for the 40th ...
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 ...
On October 11, 1968, the Apollo 7 mission launched from Cape Kennedy bound for low-Earth orbit to test the Apollo command and service module. It was the first of the famous Apollo series, which would ...
APOLLO 11 spaceman Michael Collins who stayed in the command module during the 1969 moon walk has died after battling cancer. Collins was “The Forgotten Man” during the Apollo 11 lunar landing, while ...