Of the 365 feet of Apollo Saturn V that launched on 16th July, only the 11-foot high Command Module, Columbia, returned to Earth where it safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean
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Moon Landing: T Plus 3 Days – The Future
As the Apollo 11 Command Service Module covered the quarter of a million miles back from the Moon back to the Earth, NASA had big plans for the Moon
Moon Landing: T Plus 1 Day – First Footsteps
Americans would have us believe that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969 because they saw it happen in their late evening
Moon Landing: T Minus 4 Days – Launch
Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew of three blasted off from Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral…
Scalpel! Glue! Paint! Coffee?
In the last few years the revitalised plastic kit manufacturer Airfix has been re-releasing some of their classic kits in addition to creating new ones on such modern subjects as Wallace And Gromit and new Doctor Who. After some years… Read More ›