He was a member of the Apollo 11 crew, which effected the first moon landing.

But the weeklong adventure of the Apollo 13 crew unfolded in a very different atmosphere.

When the Apollo 11 crew began training in 1968, it was not clear if theirs would be the first landing mission.

Miraculously, they were the only fatalities among the Apollo crews.

The Apollo 13 crew holds the distinction of being the farthest any human has traveled from the Earth's surface.

It was also the first song to be sung in space, by the Apollo 9 crew.

Previous Apollo crews had been in lunar orbits that were just over equatorial regions.

For years after the fire, he displayed the portrait given to him by the Apollo 1 crew in the front hallway of his own home.

Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), member of the Apollo 11 crew.

The Apollo 11 crew visited Pahlavi during a world tour.