The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates had already arrived at a design to represent the first moon landing. Armstrong's note and the mission patch proposal that inspired it are up for auction ...

The release of the mission patch, while minor in comparison to other milestones, is another step forward to returning astronauts to the moon more than a half century after the Apollo program ended.

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

The mission patch at upper left is dominated by the image of Apollo, the Greek sun god. A Saturn 5 rocket sends Apollo 17 spaceward from Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 7, 1972. Apollo 17 was NASA's ...

We came in peace for all mankind.’ Designed by Collins, Apollo 11’s mission patch echoes this friendly and universal sentiment. The patch shows an American eagle flying over the Moon.

"This patch designates the mission as 'AII,' signifying not only ... planet hovering above the lunar horizon was captured by the Apollo 8 crew, the first humans to fly to the moon.

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...

He was 90. It was in July 1969 that Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ventured to the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission. Collins — the mission's command module pilot — remained in ...

The release of the mission patch, while minor in comparison to other milestones, is another step forward to returning astronauts to the moon more than a half century after the Apollo program ended.