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 ...

Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham's death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by ...

On July 17, 1975, an American Apollo crew and a Soviet Soyuz crew met up in Earth orbit for the first time, setting the ...

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 ...

Collins trains for Apollo 11 in the command module simulator with a technician. NASA/Johnson Space Center Collins joined NASA in 1963 as part of the young space agency’s third class of astronauts.

On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module.

NASA . During a February 23, 1969 Apollo 9 Countdown Demonstration Test, the Apollo 9 prime crew — astronauts James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L ...

Spacecraft that carried astronauts on the 'dress rehearsal' for the first moon landing was ... Artemis splash down a reminder: Apollo 10 lunar module keeps on trekking. Copy Link; Email; X; Reddit; ...

American astronaut Michael Collins, who stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the luna… ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Ken Mattingly who orbited the moon in 1972 has died aged 87, ... Mattingly was selected to be the command module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

Astronauts made the journey in a different, attached module − called the command module. Astronauts only used the lunar module for transport between the moon and the orbiting command module.

When moviegoers first sat down to watch "Apollo 13" in the summer of 1995 ... act between safety (can they risk firing the rocket on the damaged command module?) and time (will the astronauts have ...