Cardman will command Crew-11, which could launch as soon as July. Joining her are NASA colleague Mike Fincke, Japanese ...
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 ...
The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...
The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Soyuz that brought the first UK astronaut back to Earth and the only ...
Because of the pressure of the fire, and the fact that the spacecraft's hatch opened ... in the Lunar Module and docking with the Apollo 11 command module, which was piloted by Michael Collins.
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 ...
The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be ...