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"We call the first row in the control ... of Apollo 8 rocketed their way to the moon, hundreds of workers made sure they arrived at their destination properly, completed their mission, and ...

One returned two amber glass cigar ashtrays used during the mission – preferred by the chain-smoking Apollo 11 Mission Control team as the smaller, square cigarette ashtrays filled too quickly – from ...

During Apollo 8, Capcom Mike Collins relayed news and sports ... Quick thinking, in space and in mission control, was required to return the crew safely to earth. Until the long-duration flights ...

The Eagle has landed.’ Charlie Duke is Apollo 11’s capsule communicator at Mission Control – CAPCOM, for short. It’s his job to to pass on orders and advice to the crew. An astronaut ...

These Apollo 11 astronauts were just 3 of nearly 400,000 people who had worked over ten years towards this goal. But how did they do it? What did it take to put humans on the Moon?

The team aboard Apollo 11 remained in constant contact with Mission control and the command module. Just minutes before landing, at 9.10pm, a ‘1202 programme alarm’ was triggered four times.