You can now take the controls of a historic NASA spacecraft — literally. A team of Hollywood prop and visual artists are offering replicas of the Apollo command module control panel. The ...

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The moon shone brighter this week, all full of itself. Leading up to the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, four full moons reminded us just how far we’ve come and gone. Lunar cycles aside, I want to ...

Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

PALM BEACH GARDENS -- David Adan stared at rows of lights and dials for three days. In that tense week 50 years ago, space workers on the ground were dealing with three guys who were lost in space.

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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Just four months after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, Apollo 12 took three more astronauts to the lunar surface. Apollo 12 launched on Nov. 14, 1969 - 50 years ago – from ...