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 ...

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A camera glitch gave spacewalking Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart five of the most profound minutes of his life. Schweickart, the lunar module pilot on NASA's Apollo 9 mission to low-Earth orbit in ...

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 ...

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All Apollo lunar modules, except for Apollo 10's "Snoopy," either impacted the lunar surface or disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 10's lunar module, "Snoopy," was jettisoned and intended to ...

Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt, as seen on board the command module "Gumdrop" in March 1969. Former NASA astronaut James McDivitt, who commanded the first U.S. mission to conduct a spacewalk before ...

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top of the vast Saturn V rocket and were propelled into orbit in just over 11 ...

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