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.

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 ...

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

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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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 ...