'The Eagle Has Landed:' The Apollo 11 Mission, 45 Years Later

Forty-five years ago, humankind made a giant leap.

On July 20, 1969, the spaceflight Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.

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Apollo 11, the fifth manned mission in NASA's Apollo space program, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969 — with astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins on board

The Apollo spacecraft consisted of three components: the Command Module, the Service Module and the Lunar Module (the part that would actually land on the moon). Read more...

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