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Apollo program is the first manned space flight program for the moon promoted by the United States. Computer historian Ken Siriff has released an image for obtaining the pre-modulation processor (PMP) ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 to ...
History changed forever after Neil Armstrong said, 'The Eagle has landed,' but a new study suggests that part of the Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar Module (LM), once thought to have crashed on the moon, may ...
Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...
Michael Collins kept an orbital vigil during Neil’s and Buzz’s moonwalk, but he really didn’t feel that lonely. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, at an Explorers Club dinner in Manhattan in March, ...