Tag: Apollo

  • How SpaceX’s Starship stacks up to other rockets

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    Artist’s illustration of the Starship and Super Heavy booster in flight. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Starship is set to propel itself into the record books today on its maiden flight, becoming the tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever launched by humankind into space, topping a role call of famous and history-making heavy-lift launch vehicles including…

  • Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins dies at 90

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Michael Collins inside an Apollo command module simulator. Credit: NASA Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, has passed away after a battle with cancer,…