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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 ...

You can now take the controls of a historic NASA spacecraft — literally. A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel. 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, ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Michael Collins, the one astronaut who did not step foot on the moon during the famed Apollo 11 mission, has died. He was 90. In a statement, Collins's family said he passed away ...

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 ...