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 ...

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And it still seems like only yesterday my brother and I were glued to the TV in the wee hours of the morning, waiting with great anticipation for the two astronauts to descend out of the tiny moon ...

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.