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Despite its historic nature, the primary goal of Apollo 11 was simple; to achieve a landing and then safely return. All other aspects were considered as bonuses, including the Extravehicular Activity/EVA on the surface (AKA Moonwalk) which was kept to the barest minimum of placing a few experimental devices, grabbing a few rocks, and taking a few photographs.
The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. at 9:32 am. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. An estimated one million spectators watched the launch of Apollo 11 from the highways and beaches in the vicinity of the launch site.
Apollo 11, Michael Collins (astronaut), Buzz Aldrin, Apollo Lunar Module, Lunar Module Eagle FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there Creator Michael Collins. Support as nominator – Wcamp9 00:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC) Support – I think Getting there category is the right one. I updated the file page ...
The Chandrayaan-2 mission launched on July 22, 2019, exactly 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission and two years before it captured images of the 1969 lunar landers.
See TIME's photos of Americans who watched Apollo 11 lift off for the moon on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Many other pictures better represent Apollo 11. Even for American space exploration I think there are better options. gren グレン 20:08, 31 July 2007 (UTC) Comment I have submitted a request to "Ask NASA" for more information on the photograph's origin and whether the original is accessible. Getting an answer may take several days.
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon.It was named after the bald eagle, which was featured prominently on the mission insignia.