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 ...

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.

On Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first thing ever written by a human while on a celestial body that wasn't our own planet Earth was jotted onto a page. That page was within a book known as "The ...

Explore the Apollo 11 Command Module in 3D For the first time, ... But getting him there involved more than strapping the astronaut to a rocket and pressing “go.” ...

Apollo 11: Journey to the Moon is an interactive augmented reality story of the hardware and technology used by NASA for the Apollo 11 mission.

Peek inside the Apollo 11 command module with this new 3D scan. ... Some background on Columbia: it’s a capsule-shaped spacecraft that rode on top of NASA’s Saturn V rocket, ...

Today (July 18), Christie's in New York City auctions the lunar-module timeline book from the Apollo 11 mission; it may fetch as much as $9 million.

On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission began when astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were launched into space atop a Saturn V rocket. Four days later, while Collins ...

Our fourth and final installment in our series is about Grumman, the company which built the Lunar Module (LEM) which made the historic manned landing on the Moon's surface on July 20, 1969.

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

In the two-man cabin of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, slowly riding down its vertical rocket jet, blue signal lights flash on. Probes dangling 60 inches below the disk-shaped footpads have touched ...