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The team aboard Apollo 11 remained in constant contact with Mission control and the command module. Just minutes before landing, at 9.10pm, a ‘1202 programme alarm’ was triggered four times.

One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

By Apollo 11, he was the assistant flight controller in Mission Control. While the astronauts became American heroes for their bravery and pioneering spirit, it was the men and women in Mission ...

Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, Northcutt sat in a staff support room that the directors in the general mission control room would call if they needed assistance. She was the only woman in her job at the ...

With a newly-discovered trove of never-before-seen 70mm footage and audio recordings, APOLLO 11: First Steps Edition joins Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the Mission Control team ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

‘GO’, Bales replies. If he’s made the wrong call, there’ll be no happy ending to Apollo 11’s adventure story. Image caption, At Mission Control, guidance officer Steve Bales has a big ...

Aldrin is still planting flags 56 years after he did so on the moon, only now it is in a commercial asking "Can you text me ...

The first manned mission to the moon ... Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...