See the new Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Page 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 : 1969 - 1994 The crew of Apollo 11: Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module pilot Michael Collins, Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. May 1, 1969. (NASA photo ID S69-31739) The first manned journey to the Moon began at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida with the liftoff of Apollo 11 at 9:32 a.

See the Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Page Apollo 11 Launched: 16 July 1969 UT 13:32:00 (09:32:00 a.m. EDT) Landed on Moon: 20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT) Landing Site: Mare Tranquillitatis - Sea of Tranquility (0.67 N, 23.47 E) Returned to Earth: 24 July 1969 UT 16:50:35 (12:50:35 p.m. EDT) Neil A. Armstrong, commander Michael Collins, command module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar ...

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Stories from the day of the first Moon Landing, July 20, 1969, from witnesses here on Earth. Memories from the Earthbound about Apollo 11 and the impact it had on their lives. An historical archive and time capsule preserving one day on Earth that a large portion of the population has strong reason to recal in vivid detail.

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On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a man first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (with less than 30 seconds fo fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the Small Step into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named Eagle, onto the surface of ...

APOLLO-11 HASSELBLAD CAMERAS by Phill Parker The camera equipment carried on the Apollo-11 flight was comprehensive. In addition to the usual TV and small-film cameras on board, there was a special camera for near-distance stereoscopic shots of the moon. And, of course, there were also the cameras which, for this article, are the most important, viz., three Hasselblad 500ELs. Two of the 500ELs ...

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As the nation celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, the notion that the July 1969 mission could have turned tragic now seems, in retrospect, inconceivable. But the Nixon administration devised a contingency plan in case the two men who stepped on the moon were stranded there, according to this July 18, 1969 memo discovered recently at the National Archives. The memo, ...

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The landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon was the culmination of almost a decade of extraordinary effort by NASA and the United States. Engaged in a race with the Soviet Union, NASA and the country achieved incredible results in a very short time, landing the Eagle on the Moon, as John F. Kennedy promised, within the decade. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were the astronauts who ...