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Apollo 11: As It Happened, a 1994 six-hour documentary on ABC News' coverage of the event [287] First Man, 2018 film by Damien Chazelle based on the 2005 James R. Hansen book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. Apollo 11, a 2019 documentary film by Todd Douglas Miller with restored footage of the 1969 event [288] [289]
John Royer Garman [1] (September 11, 1944 – September 20, 2016) was a computer engineer, former senior NASA executive and noted key figure of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. As a young specialist on duty during the final descent stage on 20 July 1969 he dealt with a series of computer alarms which could have caused the mission to be aborted.
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 .
Millions on Earth watched and listened live as Armstrong announced, "The Eagle has landed."
Launch date Landing site CDR CMP LMP Apollo 12 [c] H November 1969 Ocean of Storms: Pete Conrad: Richard F. Gordon Jr. Alan Bean: Apollo 12 November 14, 1969 Ocean of Storms Pete Conrad Richard F. Gordon Jr. Alan Bean Apollo 13 H March 1970 Fra Mauro highlands: Alan Shepard: Stuart Roosa: Edgar Mitchell: Apollo 13 April 11, 1970 Failed Jim ...
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n / AWL-drin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
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