Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he and two other astronauts flew to the moon 50 years ago. At NASA’s invitation, Michael Collins spent the golden ...

The final product—a silicon disk roughly the size of a U.S. half dollar coin—is legible with a microscope and was placed on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts. They also left a gold replica ...

However, when Apollo 11 neared its destination, astronauts performed a braking manoeuvre known as "lunar orbit insertion" to slow the spacecraft and cause it to go into orbit around the Moon.

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Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced. When fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the ...

Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...

“One of the rock samples brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts last July will go on display in [...] Ocean Terminal.” [2] “The specimen will be set on a three-pronged stainless-steel ...