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Mission planning placed special emphasis on capturing panoramas and the final version of the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Operations Plan [6] had itemised the capture of at least 3 panoramas on the timeline and Armstrong managed to complete a couple more as well. Along the way, several "sequences of opportunity" presented themselves that could also ...
In Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing, Kennedy's speech flashed on the screen, followed by the words "TASK ACCOMPLISHED, July 1969". [221] The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority; [221] and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race. [222] [223]
This is a timeline of space exploration ... Apollo 11 [23] 21 July 1969 First space launch from another celestial body. ... archive of important space exploration ...
A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time.
Not a crewed mission. Apollo 12: USA: 18 November 1969: Crewed mission. Apollo 13: USA: 14 April 1970: S-IVB stage crashed for seismic research (rocket stages from some other Apollo missions that successfully landed were also crashed in this manner [9]) Luna 16: USSR: 20 September 1970
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
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]
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...