Mr. Collins is often the forgotten astronaut on Apollo 11, the one who remained in orbit, 60 miles above the moon in the Apollo command module, waiting for his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

Apollo 11 Dueling Superpowers, Rival Billionaires. Inside the New Race to the Moon The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos See the Past, Present and Future of American Spaceflight ...

When did Apollo 11 land on the moon and what happened? On Monday, July 21, 1969, at 3.56am ... Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

NASA's historic Apollo 11 moon mission landed the first astronauts on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. See how the mission worked in this Space.com infographic . (Image credit: Karl Tate/SPACE.com) ...

Michael Collins, command module pilot, Apollo 11: Certain people either didn’t know about it or didn’t care about going to the moon, but it was of some importance to people in virtually every ...

Those are the official markers. Armstrong and Aldrin also left an Apollo 1 mission patch, in memory of astronauts Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Edward White, who died when their command module ...

The Module is part of "Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission," a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle until Sept. 2, 2019.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. NASA Nineteen minutes later, it was Aldrin’s turn to take his first steps.

The interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin during the lunar landing mission, July 20, 1969. read more NASA ...

Cosmic celebrations all around as the July Full Buck Moon coincides with the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

The Apollo Lunar Module known as the Eagle descends onto the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. This is a composite image comprised of two separate shots. Watch Next ...

The Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 16. Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins, the command module pilot, made the Apollo 11 crew.