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    Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

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    On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched aboard Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center to begin the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. After achieving Earth orbit and a trans-lunar injection burn, they entered lunar orbit and Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle while Collins remained in the command module Columbia. Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquility with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. On July 20, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, proclaiming "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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    Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

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    On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched aboard Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center to begin the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. After achieving Earth orbit and a trans-lunar injection burn, they entered lunar orbit and Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle while Collins remained in the command module Columbia. Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquility with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. On July 20, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, proclaiming "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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    On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched aboard Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center to begin the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. After achieving Earth orbit and a trans-lunar injection burn, they entered lunar orbit and Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle while Collins remained in the command module Columbia. Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquility with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. On July 20, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, proclaiming "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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    Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

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    On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched aboard Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center to begin the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. After achieving Earth orbit and a trans-lunar injection burn, they entered lunar orbit and Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle while Collins remained in the command module Columbia. Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquility with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. On July 20, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon, proclaiming "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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    Now, on the morning of July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael

    Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-
    stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into
    history.

    At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the engines fire and Apollo 11 clears the tower. About 12 minutes later, the crew
    is in Earth orbit. (› Play Audio)

    After one and a half orbits, Apollo 11 gets a "go" for what mission controllers call "Translunar
    Injection" - in other words, it's time to head for the moon. Three days later the crew is in lunar orbit. A
    day after that, Armstrong and Aldrin climb into the lunar module Eagle and begin the descent, while
    Collins orbits in the command module Columbia. 

    Collins later writes that Eagle is "the weirdest looking contraption I have ever seen in the sky," but it
    will prove its worth.

    When it comes time to set Eagle down in the Sea of Tranquility, Armstrong improvises, manually
    piloting the ship past an area littered with boulders. During the final seconds of
    descent, Eagle's computer is sounding alarms.

    It turns out to be a simple case of the computer trying to do too many things at once, but as Aldrin
    will later point out, "unfortunately it came up when we did not want to be trying to solve these
    particular problems."

    When the lunar module lands at 4:17 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain. Armstrong radios
    "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupts in celebration as the
    tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're
    breathing again." (› Play Audio)

    Armstrong will later confirm that landing was his biggest concern, saying "the unknowns were
    rampant," and "there were just a thousand things to worry about."

    At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than
    half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's one
    small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." (› Play Audio)

    Aldrin joins him shortly, and offers a simple but powerful description of the lunar surface:
    "magnificent desolation." They explore the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and
    taking photographs.

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