WASHINGTON DC — The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" is displayed in the "Destination Moon" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum. This historic spacecraft carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on humanity's first lunar landing mission in July 1969. Columbia, the only portion of the Apollo 11 spacecraft to return to Earth, protected the crew during the fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. Designated a "Milestone of Flight" by the museum, the command module has been a centerpiece of the Smit
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WASHINGTON DC — The Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia" is displayed in the "Destination Moon" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum. This historic spacecraft carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on humanity's first lunar landing mission in July 1969. Columbia, the only portion of the Apollo 11 spacecraft to return to Earth, protected the crew during the fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. Designated a "Milestone of Flight" by the museum, the command module has been a centerpiece of the Smit