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

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

All Apollo lunar modules, except for Apollo 10's "Snoopy," either impacted the lunar surface or disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 10's lunar module, "Snoopy," was jettisoned and intended to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 16mm data acquisition camera ...

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man". When you ...

"It was the kind of thing that only happens once in your life," Kranz said. As millions around the world watched the first lunar landing attempt, the employees at NASA's mission control center in ...

Legendary astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. shared a heartfelt message on the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, recalling the historic moment when the lunar module Eagle landed at ...

The Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, was far from streamlined. Mission Control’s Steve Bales recounts the tense final descent phase that led to man’s first step. ByJim Clash, Contributor.

The afternoon crowd in the main plaza of Space Center Houston knew what to expect as they watched Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft descend slowly. That wasn’t the case 55 years ago when ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape ...