Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

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Click to open image viewer. The unmanned Apollo 6 Command Module (CM 020) was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1968 and recovered in the Pacific Ocean 10 hours later. The mission was the ...

Michael Collins, the astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module of the Moon-landing Apollo 11 mission, died on April 28 at the age of 90. The ...

NASA’s Al Worden is one of the Apollo programme astronauts who flew to the Moon but never landed on its surface. As the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, Mr Worden stayed in lunar orbit while David ...

Marking time has long been a human obsession - from the first rudimentary cave markings to wall planners, desk diaries and computerized charts, calendars have always been with us. Now scientists at ...