NASA’s Al Worden is one of the Apollo programme astronauts who flew to the Moon but never landed on its surface. As the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, Mr Worden stayed in lunar orbit while David ...
This picture, taken from the command module America, shows Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. Small reaction control thrusters are at the sides of the moonship with the ...
Collins was part of the three-man crew that made history with the lunar landing in 1969, but unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, he never walked on the moon. Although he travelled 238,000 and came ...
APOLLO 11 spaceman Michael Collins who stayed in the command module during the 1969 moon walk has died after battling cancer. Collins was “The Forgotten Man” during the Apollo 11 lunar landing, while ...
Apollo 13's commander Jim Lovell selects music on a portable tape player while Jack Swigert naps off to the right Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa's stricken ...
An astronaut who visited the moon in 1972 as part of the Apollo 16 crew and helped design the Apollo spacesuits has died at the age of 87. But he's probably best known for Apollo 13 - the mission he ...
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 ...
Months of gruelling training exercises paid off for NASA on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. The historic mission saw astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins safely ...