Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong, Edwin (buzz) Aldrin Jr and Michael Colins, on the moon, July 20 1969.
The mission is considered a major accomplishment in the history of exploration.
Apollo 11 was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida on July 16, Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission, and the third lunar mission, of NASA's Apollo program. The crew consisted of Armstrong as commander and Aldrin as lunar module pilot, with Command Module Pilot Michael Collins.
Armstrong and Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility and became the first humans to walk on the Moon on July 21.
Their lunar module, Eagle, spent 21 hours 31 minutes on the lunar surface, while Collins remained in orbit in the command module, Columbia.
Apollo 11 fulfilled U.S. President John F Kennedy's goal of reaching the Moon before the Soviet Union by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a 1961 Mission statement before the United State Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
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