Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia"
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| carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins into lunar orbit in July, 1969. Following a landing by Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon in the Lunar Module, the three astronauts returned to earth in the "Columbia", splashing down in the Pacific on July 24, 1969. National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. |
