The Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon has died age 90. Michael Collins was called the "forgotten astronaut" because he piloted the ...

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 ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base, fulfilling President John F Kennedy’s goal of landing man on the Moon by the end of the Sixties. Armstrong became an ...

This year is the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first time humans walked on the moon. The iconic imagery and audio from the mission is certainly seared into humankind’s collective ...

Join the countdown to the final, dramatic 13-minute descent Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the Moon Four days earlier, on 16 July 1969 Armstrong, ...

The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap. Aldrin, 94, the last ...

The Apollo 11 astronaut who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon has died age 90. Michael Collins was called the "forgotten astronaut" because he piloted the ...

"Our position checks downrange show us to be a little long." Neil Armstrong realises he'll miss the target landing site. Before the launch, he wrote a checklist of lunar landmarks and has been timing ...