If you’ve watched a Saturn V launch, you’ve probably seen how a large rocket will often jettison a stage on the way up. There ...

Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, died Wednesday after a ...

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In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. Notably, there were 13 ...

On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...

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

The spacesuit worn by the first Briton in space, the Russian capsule that brought Britain's first professional astronaut back to Earth, and the only flown-to-the-moon Apollo command module to be on ...

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