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.

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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... The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers ...

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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 ...

Marking time has long been a human obsession - from the first rudimentary cave markings to wall planners, desk diaries and computerized charts, calendars have always been with us. Now scientists at ...

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 ...

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Michael Collins, the astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module of the Moon-landing Apollo 11 mission, died on April 28 at the age of 90. The ...

A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth bomber in flight and another image of the bulky Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface. The bomber is labeled, ...

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 his ...

With the success of Apollo 14 behind them and the near tragedy of Apollo 13 firmly in the past, Apollo’s mission planners hiked the length and sophistication of the following mission. Apollo 15 was ...