Apollo astronauts

💬 0 🔁 21 ❤️ 66 · Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Moon, July 20, 1969. Painted by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean in 1985.

www.retrospaceimages.com - Remembering Astronaut Ed Mitchell - Sorry to share the sad news today that Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell passed away last night. Mitchell was the sixth human to walk the surface of the moon (on this date - Feb 5) in 1971. The Apollo 14 crew is back together again.

We speak to Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin about his life, the legacy of the moonlandings and humanity's future in space.

Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott picks up a drill off the surface of the Moon, August 1, 1971.

NASA Apollo 9

Astronaut John Young

This new book present the lunar landing program through rare and personal images, showing it in a whole new light.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was my schooldays hero. I remember that I had pasted many of his photographs in my notebook, which were published in newspapers and magazines. As a collector of postal stamps, I always searched for stamps portraying this great astronaut, as well as stamps related to Apollo 11 Mission. I also remember

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 - LIFE magazine

Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin: 1969 and 2009

John Young, one of only 12 humans to have walked the dusty surface of the Moon, one of only three of mankind’s sons to have traveled twice to lunar distance, the only astronaut to fly aboard Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, and the first person to record six space missions, has died, aged 87. Known to posterity as “The Astronaut’s Astronaut”, Young was a titanic figure in NASA’s astronaut corps for more than four decades.

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In a recent tweet, astronaut Michael Collins, the Command Module pilot for NASA's Apollo 11 mission released a picture never shown to the public featuring himself, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong.

Michael Collins, U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. Collins circled the Moon in Columbia, while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed in the lunar module Eagle. Learn more about Collins’s life and career.