This Day, That Year – July 20

This day in history we feature Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the surface of the Moon on this day in 1969.

Trivia – Apollo 11

Commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon’s surface. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center. It was the fifth crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program. The Apollo spacecraft had three parts: a command module, a service module, and a lunar module that had two stages—a descent stage for landing on the Moon and an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit.

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After being sent to the Moon by the Saturn V’s third stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and traveled for three days until they entered lunar orbit. They returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24 after more than eight days in space. Armstrong’s first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience.

Source – Wikipedia

This day in history – Apollo 11