Gardner wasn’t on duty for the July 24 splashdown. But he went to Mission Control anyway, joining the flag-waving, cigar-smoking crowd as Apollo 11’s astounding voyage came to an end in the ...

After a four-day flight around Earth's poles, four private citizens aboard a SpaceX rocket returned Friday with a splashdown off ... assigned to the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission.

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The facility now on display at NASM's Udvar-HazyCenter was the one used to isolate the three-man crew of Apollo 11 upon splashdown." Plans called for Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and ...

Apollo Journey' follows the familiar story of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission from launch sequence ... ending with the return to Earth and splashdown. With images from NASA.