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The sad news about Michael Collins did remind me of something I've never understood about NASA's Artemis plans. In 1969, Michael Collins had a critical job. NASA wasn't capable of building an Apollo ...

(WHNT) – On July 20, 1969, three astronauts landed among the stars in the great unknown. Very unknown. Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

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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 ...