Apollo 11 Space Mission
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Apollo 11 space mission. The mission conducted the first crewed landing on the moon deployed instruments took photographs collected samples and returned the crew safely back home. Project apollo s goals went beyond landing americans on the moon and returning them safely to earth. Apollo 11 the goal of apollo 11 was as john f.
Johnson has been called a math genius. Most notably in 1969 she calculated trajectories that led the apollo 11 to the moon one of america s greatest scientific feats. One nation s arrival to the moon was in reality a global far reaching endeavor.
Nasa s historic apollo 11 moon mission landed the first astronauts on the lunar surface on july 20 1969. Mission highlights apollo 11 launched from cape kennedy on july 16 1969 carrying commander neil armstrong command module pilot michael collins and lunar module pilot edwin buzz aldrin into an initial earth orbit of 114 by 116 miles. Apollo s goals the national effort that enabled astronaut neil armstrong to speak those words as he stepped onto the lunar surface fulfilled a dream as old as humanity.
Kennedy had pronounced less than a decade earlier to land astronauts on the moon and return them safely to earth.