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Docking Target, Active, Lunar Module, Apollo 11

Click to open image viewer. Following rendezvous with the Lunar Module after its ascent from the lunar surface, the LM Active Docking Target, made by Symbolic Displays Inc., is mounted in the Command ...
Time

Science: A Spectacular Step Toward Lunar Landing

AT first it was only a tiny speck in the sky. Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9’s orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever ...
Astronomy

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 command module pilot, dies at 90

Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut dubbed “the loneliest man in history” for his role piloting the orbiting command module during the first Moon-landing Apollo mission, died on April 28 at the ...
Ars Technica

Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died

Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...