Apollo 11 Space Mission Pictures

Two human missions apollos 8 and 10 orbited the moon before the apollo 11 landing.

Apollo 11 space mission pictures. Armstrong inside the lunar module after e. Nasa 16 july 1969. Kennedy space center control room team members rise from their consoles to watch the liftoff of the apollo 11 mission on july 16 1969.

Apollo 7 spacecraft 101 saturn 205 is the first of several manned flights aimed at qualifying the spacecraft for the half million mile round trip to the moon. Few sights in human history have been as exhilarating as that first earthrise over the lunar horizon. Apollo 11 astronauts trained on earth to take individual photographs in succession in order to create a series of frames that could be assembled into panoramic images.

Mission control celebrates after splashdown july 24 1969 s69 40024 mission control celebrates apollo 11 july 24 1969 s69 40147 apollo 11 astronauts still in their quarantine van are greeted by their wives upon arrival at ellington air force base july 27 1969. Image 8 of 17 image credit. Nasa afp getty images this image taken in the early.

Buzz aldrin and lunar module interior. This frame from aldrin s. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later.

Apollo 11 edwin e. These new views of the earth in space were an unforeseen revelation. 11 1968 and was an engineering flight to test space vehicle and mission support facilities performance during a crewed mission.

During their nine days in space the astronauts aboard apollo 11 took some of the world s most famous and beautiful photographs. A gift to the national air and space museum is a gift to the nation the world and the future. The apollo 7 saturn ib space vehicle is launched from the kennedy space center s launch complex 34 at 11 03 a m.