Collins stays in lunar orbit with the Command Module (CM ... Charlie Duke is Apollo 11’s capsule communicator at Mission Control – CAPCOM, for short. It’s his job to to pass on orders ...

He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft ...

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to ... break from the Earth's orbit and blast off into space, sending a spacecraft 250,000 miles to reach the Moon. As of 2024, the Saturn V ...

"As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called him ... Collins remained in communication with NASA controllers aboard the spacecraft. But as the ship reached the backside of the ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth ...

Marc shows us where the AGC lived in the Command Module and the LEM. The AGC pictured alongside the DSKY. The Apollo program marked the first time humans had trusted the piloting a spacecraft or ...