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Fifty years ago today, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. It took about 410,000 people to put them there. One of them was Vancouver resident Libby Montoya-Bunkley’s late ...
A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...
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Former Corvallis city councilor Bill York’s biggest contribution to the Apollo program came about after a fire during a training session for Apollo 1 in 1967 killed the mission’s three-person crew.
Michael Collins—a two-time astronaut who piloted the command module during the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the Moon—died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family ...
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Look at a picture of the Apollo 11 launch and you'll probably notice the rocket's pointed tip and the fire coming from the five giant engines in the first stage of the 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket.