Apollo mission commanders, primarily focused on mission duties, generally exhibited minimal post-flight personality changes. In contrast, lunar module pilots frequently experienced significant ...

American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface to become the first ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...

APOLLO 11 spaceman Michael Collins who stayed in the command module during the 1969 moon walk has died after battling cancer. Collins was “The Forgotten Man” during the Apollo 11 lunar landing, while ...

While you probably already know about the Apollo 11 moon landing, you may be surprised to learn that NASA's Apollo Program ran from 1962 to 1972 and included 14 total missions, six of which were lunar ...

Join the countdown to the final, dramatic 13-minute descent Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the Moon Four days earlier, on 16 July 1969 Armstrong, ...

The Apollo 11 command module, which travelled around one-and-a-half million kilometres to take Americans to the moon and back in 1969, is going on a road trip You can save this article by registering ...