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After the Apollo 11 mission, officials from the Soviet Union said landing humans on the Moon was dangerous and unnecessary. At the time the Soviet Union was attempting to retrieve lunar samples robotically. The Soviets publicly denied there was a race to the Moon, and indicated they were not making an attempt. [234]
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]
This is a timeline of space exploration which ... Apollo 11 [23] 21 July 1969 First space launch from another celestial body. ... First mission to survey the space ...
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It was named after the bald eagle , which was featured prominently on the mission insignia .
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
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 ...
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood; Apollo 11 50th Anniversary commemorative coins; Apollo 11 anniversaries; Apollo 11 in popular culture; Apollo 11 lunar sample display; Template:Apollo 11 lunar sample display; Apollo in Real Time; Arkansas lunar sample displays; Armalcolite; Armstrong (crater)
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 ...