Michael Collins was the man who got history’s middle seat — literally aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft ... When we did something like exceeded escape velocity and left Earth orbit, for example ...

Launched from Earth on July 16, 1969, the three astronauts of Apollo ... To escape from Earth, the astronauts needed the three-stage Saturn V rocket to boost their spacecraft to a velocity of ...

I just wanted to escape. Wherever I lived as a child, I wanted to be somewhere else. I achieved escape velocity only through ... The year before Apollo landed was the fateful fork: cities had ...

This speed is called the escape velocity. It takes a lot of fuel to reach that speed, which is why early rockets, like Apollo's Saturn V, were so big: They had to carry enough fuel to get to the moon.

More Apollo 11 ... 25,000 mph (40,000 kph) to escape from our planet's gravity. To escape from the Moon, there's no air resistance to combat, and the escape velocity is only ~20% what it is ...

COLLINS: I’d be a liar or a fool if I said I had the best seat on Apollo 11. But I can say ... When we did something like exceeded escape velocity and left Earth orbit, for example, that was ...