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 to two engineers who were part of the effort.

This year, one of the most important artifacts of the Space Age, the Columbia command module of the Apollo 11 mission, will leave its home at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space ...

Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia," 1969 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 ...

In Another Giant Leap, Apollo 11 Command Module Is 3-D Digitized for Humankind Five decades after Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins journeyed to the moon, their spaceship finds a new digital life ...

The biggest artifact from Apollo 11 is the Columbia Command Module, which falls under the oversight of Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, who curates the Museum's social and cultural dimensions of ...

Apollo 11 Command Module Makes Another Journey The command module “Columbia” will visit four U.S. museums, leaving DC for the first time in 46 years.

Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module during the first Moon-landing Apollo mission, died on April 28 ...

The command module that brought astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon will be on display in four U.S. cities in the next two years. National Air and Space Museum ...

Cincinnati is the fifth and final stop for the historic command module before it returns to the National Air and Space Museum. It's the only portion of the historic Apollo 11 spacecraft to return ...

Apollo 11 Command Module Foil Available just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, this specimen is a fragment of mission-flown kapton foil that lined the Apollo 11 command ...

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 to two engineers who were part of the effort.