Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission that would fulfill President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and ... That same day, NASA managers ...

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The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of ... a model of the moon in 1969. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of their Saturn V rocket ...