For the first time in nearly half a century, the prized Apollo 11 command module Columbia will leave the National Air and Space Museum and go on a four-city tour. For the next two years, it will be ...

The first mission to put a man on the moon came to a celebratory end when on July 24, 1969, Apollo 11's command module Columbia splashed into the Pacific Ocean with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil ...

• The Saint Louis Science Center is one of only four stops on the Smithsonian’s special traveling tour of the exhibit Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission. It features various artifacts, footage, ...

Forty-seven years ago, mankind achieved what was once unthinkable when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon. But getting him there involved more than strapping the astronaut to a rocket ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today marks the the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, and you can celebrate by taking a virtual ...

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 ...

The Apollo 11 command module, "Columbia." The historic command module that took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon and back in July 1969 is coming to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Museum Center will be the ...

Cincinnati is the fifth and final stop for the historic command module before it returns to the National Air and Space Museum. It's the only portion of the historic Apollo 11 spacecraft to return to ...

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