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William Harris, president and CEO of Space Center Houston, stands in front of the Apollo 11 command module capsule. The center is the first stop of a four-city tour featuring the module and related ...
Detailed handwritten notes have been discovered on the walls of the Apollo 11 command module that took astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins to the Moon and back in 1969. The ...
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 ...
This Apollo Block I Command Module flew on the suborbital AS-202 mission on August 25, 1966. This was the third flight of the Saturn IB and the second Command Module heat shield test. The objectives ...
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and challenged America to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. “No single space project in this period ...