On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

• The Saint Louis Science Center is one of only four stops on the Smithsonian’s special traveling tour of the exhibit Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission. It features various artifacts, footage, ...

If it wasn’t for the lunar module, we wouldn’t have heard the famous words from Neil Armstrong, on July 20th of 1969. “That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong ...

The first mission to put a man on the moon came to a celebratory end when on July 24, 1969, Apollo 11's command module Columbia splashed into the Pacific Ocean with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil ...

The Apollo 11 command module, "Columbia." The historic command module that took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon and back in July 1969 is coming to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Museum Center will be the ...

The astronaut’s command module, Columbia, the only part of Apollo 11 spacecraft to return intact, is the highlight of the exhibit. It also showcases Buzz Aldrin’s gold-plated extra-vehicular helmet ...

As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon, Michael Collins remained in the Columbia command module for 22 hours, "truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known ...

The Apollo 11 command module Columbia from the first manned moon landing in 1969 will be the centerpiece of an exhibit this spring and summer at the Saint Louis Science Center. Smithsonian’s National ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins has revealed a previously unseen photo of the famous Moon landing crew members that he “found at the bottom of a box.” The photo shows Collins, Neil Armstrong and ...

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