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 ...

Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.

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 ...

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Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

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 ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon. Designing, testing and building it was a monumental task, according... The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers ...