About the Author

Michael Collins was Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned Moon-landing mission and the first director of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Bertram Ulrich is NASA's Curator and Multimedia Manager. He is co-author of NASA & the Exploration of Space and Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years of Art and Literature. Tom Crouch is Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.