WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...

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 ...

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 ...

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View of the interior of Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia." It’s been nearly 50 years since the Apollo 11 team landed the lunar module, Eagle, in 1969. Now Pittsburgh can get close to a defining ...

Astronaut Neil Armstrong shared what he was thinking during historic (white-knuckle) landing on the moon 50 years ago Neil Armstrong had plenty on his mind — on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 — as he ...

On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module floating 60 ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

Churchville, N.Y. (WHAM) - Barry Nobles was 'thinking big' when he wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest accomplishments in human history-- the lunar landing back. "I think ...

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