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The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

These SpaceX photos show its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance capsule as they stand atop the launch pad on March 11, ...

and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July 1969. Schematic diagram of the Ranger 8 spacecraft, showing its major components. Credit: NASA / JPL The ...

One small step': A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular ... from the spacecraft's vantage ...