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Launch date: July 16, 1969, ... On July 13, three days before Apollo 11's launch, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, which reached lunar orbit before Apollo 11.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
A photo taken during the Apollo 11 50th anniversary show of the Apollo 11 rocket projected on the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on July 20, 2019 As part of the festival was a projection of the 363-foot (111 m) tall Saturn V rocket on the east face of the 555-foot (169 m) tall Washington Monument from July 16 through the 20th from 9:30 ...
The launch of Apollo 11 on Saturn V SA-506, July 16, 1969. ... Launch date (UTC) Pad ... On Apollo 11, TLI came at 2 hours and 44 minutes after launch. ...
The SLS will surpass the Saturn V, the world's most powerful rocket to fly to date. ... The lone female launch controller for Apollo 11, JoAnn Morgan, enjoyed seeing the much updated- firing room ...
Apollo 11: Apollo 11: 16 July 1969: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Success Lunar Module Eagle: Lander/Launch Vehicle: Success First crewed landing on the Moon. The Lunar Module Eagle landed at 20:17 UTC on 20 July 1969. 73: Zond 7 (7K-L1 No.11L) Zond 7: 7 August 1969: Proton-K/D: Lavochkin: Flyby: Success Technology demonstration for planned crewed ...
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned to the launch pad Tuesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where he flew to the moon 50 years ago along with the late Neil Armstrong and ...
A Saturn V rocket launches Apollo 11, 1969. Saturn V launch vehicles and flights were designated with an AS-500 series number, "AS" indicating "Apollo Saturn" and the "5" indicating Saturn V. [67] The three-stage Saturn V was designed to send a fully fueled CSM and LM to the Moon. It was 33 feet (10.1 m) in diameter and stood 363 feet (110.6 m ...