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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.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
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 .
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.
In 1969 Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on ... Seconds before impact, at 5 and 0.6 kilometres (3.11 and 0.37 ... Launch date Goal Result Landing zone ...
Apollo 11: Apollo 11: 16 July 1969: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Success Lunar Module Eagle: Lander/Launch Vehicle: Success First crewed landing on the Moon. The Lunar Module Eagle landed at 20:17 UTC on 20 July 1969. 73: Zond 7 (7K-L1 No.11L) Zond 7: 7 August 1969: Proton-K/D: Lavochkin: Flyby: Success Technology demonstration for planned crewed ...
The lone female launch controller for Apollo 11, JoAnn Morgan, enjoyed seeing the much updated- firing room. One thing was notably missing, though: stacks of paper. "We could have walked to the ...
The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap. Aldrin, 94 ...