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Apollo 11
Mission Summary
Apollo 11 Facts
Apollo 11 Crew
Spacecraft
Landing Site
Images
Audio/Video
The Apollo Program
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| Lunar Module: |
Eagle
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| Command and Service
Module: |
Columbia |
| Crew:
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Neil Armstrong
,commander
Michael Collins, command module pilot
Edwin Aldrin, lunar module pilot |
| Launch: |
July 16, 1969
13:32:00 UT (09:32 a.m. EDT) Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex
39A |
| Landing
Site: |
Mare
Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility)
0.67 N, 23.47 E |
| Landed on Moon: |
July 20, 1969
20:17:40 UT (4:17:40 p.m. EDT) |
| First step: |
02:56:15 UT July 21, 1969
(10:56:15 p.m. EDT July 20, 1969) |
| EVA duration: |
2 hours, 31
minutes |
| Lunar Surface Traversed: |
~250 meters |
| Moon Rocks Collected: |
21.7 kilograms |
| LM Departed Moon: |
July 21, 1969
17:54:01 UT (1:54:01 p.m. EDT) |
| Returned to Earth: |
July 24, 1969
16:50:35 UT (12:50:35 p.m. EDT) |
| Time on Lunar Surface: |
21 hours, 38
minutes, 21 seconds |
| Mission Duration: |
195 hr. 18 min.
35 sec. |
| Retrieval site: |
Pacific Ocean
13° 19'N latitude and 169° 9'W longitude |
| Retrieval ship: |
U.S.S. Hornet |
Special
Payload:
- Plaque (commemorates
first manned landing)
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Carried to Moon and returned two large American
flags, flags of the 50 states, District of Columbia and U.S.
Territories, flags of other nations and that of the United
Nations.
- MEPS (Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly) containing TV
camera to record first steps on Moon and EASEP (Early Apollo
Science Equipment Package).
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Highlights:
- First men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin. First return of samples from another planetary
body.
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The prime mission objective of Apollo 11 is
stated simply: "Perform a manned lunar landing and return".
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First return of samples from another planetary
body. These first samples were basalts, dark-colored igneous
rocks, and they were about 3.7 billion years old.
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Plaque affixed to the
leg of the lunar landing vehicle signed by President Nixon,
Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin,
Jr. The plaque bears a map of the Earth and this inscription:
HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH
FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON
JULY 1969 A.D.
WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND
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