The last time the capsule left the Washington area was for a national tour in the early 1970s. It's been on display at the National Air and Space Museum for most of the past 40 years.

The two find a working, floor-to-ceiling solar system orrery, historic spacesuits on display and, at the center of the main hall, an Apollo command ... climbs into the capsule, followed by Joel ...

Nearly 50 years ago, that capsule — the 9,000-pound Command Module Columbia — carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Neil Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon and back. When the Apollo 11 crew ...

"The capsule ... precursor programs to Apollo. The midwest city also hosted the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, which created many of the maps of the moon used in ...

Apollo 8 was the triumphant Christmas Eve flight of the Apollo capsule, with crew members Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders. It flew to the Moon, orbited 10 times, the astronauts read to ...

After the work is done, the Apollo 11 capsule will be ready to visit museums in Houston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Seattle. Then it returns to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...

NASA on Thursday gave visitors at Kennedy Space Center a glimpse at one of it's most historic -- and tragic -- artifacts: the hatch door of the infamous Apollo 1 spacecraft. Trapped behind that ...