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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]
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]
Apollo 11: Moon: 24 July 1969 Apollo 11: First lunar landing. 36 Georgy Shonin Valeri Kubasov (1) 11 October 1969 Soyuz 6: 16 October 1969 Soyuz 6: First three-craft spaceflight. 37 Anatoly Filipchenko (1) Vladislav Volkov (1) Viktor Gorbatko (1) 12 October 1969 Soyuz 7: 17 October 1969 Soyuz 7: First three-craft spaceflight. 38 Vladimir ...
Two missions did not cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space and therefore do not qualify as spaceflights. These were the fatal STS-51-L (Challenger disaster), and the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission T-10a. Two aborted missions did cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space.
The GC team is responsible for the ground systems infrastructure and ground communications necessary to perform planning, training, testing, execution and evaluation of human spaceflight mission operations at the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center for Boeing CST Mission Operations (MCC-CST). Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC)
Apollo 11 [23] 21 July 1969 First space launch from another celestial body. First sample return from another celestial body. USA (NASA) Apollo 11 [23] 19 November 1969: First rendezvous on the surface of a celestial body. First meet up between human explorers and a robotic spacecraft in space (on the Moon). USA (NASA) Apollo 12/Surveyor 3 [24]
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 1962 challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
Mission planning placed special emphasis on capturing panoramas and the final version of the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Operations Plan [4] 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 ...