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Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970: Air Force: 8 Fred Haise (NASA Astronaut Group 5) November 14, 1933 (age 91) 36: Apollo 13 April 11–17, 1970: Marines, Air Force: Intended to land; later trained to land and slated to command Apollo 19 (canceled); [8] flew the Space Shuttle on approach / landing tests. 9 Stuart Roosa (NASA Astronaut Group 5)
The song embraces his role as an integral part of the Apollo 11 mission with the chorus, "Sometimes you take the fame, sometimes you sit back stage, but if it weren't for me them boys would still be there." [182] Collins provided narration for the Google Doodle that commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's 1969 mission to the Moon. [183]
Apollo 11 was the second American mission where all the crew members had prior spaceflight experience, [54] the first being Apollo 10. [55] The next was STS-26 in 1988. [ 54 ]
Collins recalled the tension surrounding the crew that day. "Apollo 11 ... was serious business. ... Only four of the 12 moonwalkers from 1969 through 1972 are still alive: Aldrin, Duke, Apollo 15 ...
(Reuters) -American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar surface to ...
The Apollo 11 crew trained for just six months before launching on July 16, 1969, from Florida's Cape Canaveral. The mission insignia — an eagle landing on the moon with an olive branch in its ...
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n / AWL-drin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
As commander of Apollo 11, he was the first person to step on the moon in July 1969. ... The Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, their capsule with its parachutes splashing down ...