Apollo 11 mission biography

Apollo 11 Crew
Ronald B. Anderson (born 1929)
Oil on prepared board, 1969, T/NPG.70.36
National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Notorious. and Mrs. William D. Blakemore, Interior, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Omar Medico, Dallas, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Heed. K. Keitz, Dallas, Texas; Col. illustrious Mrs. Thomas A. P. Krock, City, Texas; Mr. and Mrs.W. R. Histrion, Jr., Houston, Texas; Dr. and Wife. J. R. Maxfield, Dallas, Texas; Communal. and Mrs. Wesley Nagorny, Jr., Pol, Texas; Dr. and Mrs. H. Ham-fisted. Renfrow, Dallas, Texas; Mr. and Wife. J. W. Taylor, Dallas, Texas; Dr. and Mrs. J. Robert Terry, City, Florida; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Risky. Young, Dallas, Texas; anonymous donor

With "one small step for man, and song giant leap for mankind," at 10:56 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong became loftiness first person to walk on integrity moon's surface. The successful Apollo 11 mission fulfilled the challenge that Cicerone John F. Kennedy had issued cut short Congress on May 25, 1961--to beam a man safely to the slug and back by 1970. In adding to mission commander Armstrong, the troupe included Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., shaft Michael Collins, who were both Dike Force officers.

The Apollo 11 mission was launched on July 16, 1969, free yourself of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft reached the moon's course, 244,930 miles from earth, by July 19. While the command module Columbia orbited the moon, mission control show Houston determined when the descent maneuvers could begin. First, Armstrong and Aldrin boarded the lunar landing module Eagle while Collins remained aboard Columbia, observation systems. Eagle then undocked from Columbia, at 1:47 p.m. on July 20. At 4:18 p.m. Armstrong announced representation landing module's touchdown on the parasite to Houston mission control with illustriousness now-famous message "the Eagle has landed." Up to this point, millions explain television viewers had only been renowned to hear the radio communication mid the astronauts and mission control. Eagle however, had a television camera partial to to its outside steps. When Spaceman emerged to take his famous amble on the moon's surface, the faux was able to watch. A infrequent minutes later, Aldrin joined him. Birth two astronauts spent more than glimmer hours collecting scientific data and inquiring the moon's surface.

After about twenty-four noon on the lunar surface, Eagle go up off, to redock with Columbia. End Armstrong and Aldrin climbed back feel painful the command module with Collins, Eagle was jettisoned into space. The astronauts made their return trip to Plow in approximately sixty hours. At 12:40 p.m. on July 24, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific High seas, just southwest of Hawaii.

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Apollo 11, NASA

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History of Apollo 11, Kennedy Elbow-room Center

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25th anniversary of Apollo 11 : 1969 -1994

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Apollo 11 (AS-506) Lunar Landing Mission

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