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The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center via a Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.
Another 10 American men walked on the moon, leaving flags and footprints embedded in the lunar dust, but the Apollo programme was prematurely scrapped after the last mission in 1972.
In addition to the various activities such as the moon landing recreation video, the museum hosted a panel featuring four men who were in NASA’s control room for Apollo 11: Gene Kranz, Tom ...
The final product—a silicon disk roughly the size of a U.S. half dollar coin—is legible with a microscope and was placed on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Revisiting the heart-stopping moments before Apollo 11 landed on the moon with the world watching There were tears and cheers as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took their steps.
Apollo 11’s “Eagle” lunar lander set down on the Moon at 4:17 p.m EDT on July 20, 1969. The late Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained the “Columbia” spacecraft in lunar orbit.