Leading up to the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, ABC News built a mock Apollo command module to give viewers an inside look at how astronauts would travel to the lunar surface. See more of the ...

Before that “giant leap for mankind” 40 years ago today, a hundred-thousand small steps guided American astronauts toward the moon. Many of those steps originated in the Southland. KPCC’s Washington ...

Michael Collins at the Apollo 11 Command Module, practicing docking hatch removal from CM simulator at NASA Johnson Space Center, in Houston on June 28, 1969. Credit ...

Fifty-five years ago today, humans landed on the Moon. On the mission were three American pilots, all military pilots who had served as combat or test pilots before heading to space. Apollo 11’s lunar ...

BLOOMINGTON — Bloomington native Kenneth Hoback met Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronauts. But Hoback wasn't an astronaut. He was the U.S. Navy helmsman who steered ...