Michael Collins was the command module pilot for Apollo 11, the spaceflight that took humans to the Moon for the first time Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.

With many of the achievements of the Space Race now more than half a century behind us, it’s no wonder that we’re steadily losing the men who rode the rockets of the Mercury, Gemini, and ...

NASA’s Apollo Program was nearly derailed by tragedy, but against all odds, the world witnessed history in 1969. Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins faced impossible odds to land on the moon—this ...

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The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

8 Days: To the Moon and Back, catapults viewers right to the heart of the Apollo 11 mission, using previously classified sound recordings from inside the cockpit. Intimate audio exists for much of ...

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

People have been left surprised to learn the amount of money Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin claimed back from his historic ...

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to step foot on the Moon, is parting with some of his artifacts from both the Gemini XII and Apollo 11 missions Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which first landed American astronauts on the moon's surface. Of the intrepid crew, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have tended to ...