The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the ...

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There, he led a team responsible for planning and opening the National Air and Space Museum. The Apollo 11 capsule is in the museum’s collection along with many of Collins’ personal items from that ...

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From Woody’s column archives, April of 2018, the feelings relevant anew following the devastating wildfires in Southern ...

On its homeward voyage, the Apollo 11 capsule — like all spacecraft returning from a lunar visit — crossed an ethereal Rubicon where the moon’s gravitational attraction yielded imperceptibly ...

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The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.