OTD In Space - March 3: Apollo 9 Launches 1st Test Flight of Lunar Module

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott ...
LAist

The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers Recall Tragedy And Triumph

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OTD In Space - February 26: 1st Launch of Saturn 1B Rocket

On 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB ...
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Command Module, Apollo 11

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Discover Magazine

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot, Dies at 90

Michael Collins, the astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module of the Moon-landing Apollo 11 mission, died on April 28 at the age of 90. The ...
BBC

Wall writings on Apollo 11 command module revealed

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The processor installed in the Apollo Lunar Module, which first carried humanity to the moon more than 50 years ago, looks like this

Apollo program is the first manned space flight program for the moon promoted by the United States. Computer historian Ken Siriff has released an image for obtaining the pre-modulation processor (PMP) ...
BBC

Wall writings on Apollo 11 command module revealed

Marking time has long been a human obsession - from the first rudimentary cave markings to wall planners, desk diaries and computerized charts, calendars have always been with us. Now scientists at ...
The Durango Herald

Apollo 11 module coming to you in 3-D

WASHINGTON – For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington ...
Daily Express

Michael Collins dead: Apollo 11 command module pilot for 1969 Moon landing dies

Michael Collins, who flew the spacecraft Columbia in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon 1969, has died at the age of 90. The astronaut's family released a statement ...
Daily Mail

Apollo 11 ascent stage that helped Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin return safely from the lunar surface may still be orbiting the moon and not crashed as previously believed ...

History changed forever after Neil Armstrong said, 'The Eagle has landed,' but a new study suggests that part of the Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar Module (LM), once thought to have crashed on the moon, may ...
Ars Technica

Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died

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 ...