Apollo 11 returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean and the crew subsequently taken to the USS Hornet for recovery and a 21-day quarantine. This marked the conclusion of the first crewed Moon landing mission.[1][4][5]
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24th July 1969: The day the Apollo 11 crew made it safely back to Earth and fulfilled the goal set by US President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, "to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth." Following Lunar Module Eagle's successful rendez-vous with the Michael Collins who had been orbiting the moon in Columbia, the crew made a television broadcast to Earth, thanking those who had worked on the project and reassuring the world waiting below that they had complete faith in their...
fai.orgCommand module Columbia, containing the Apollo 11 crew, has safely returned the Earth on Thursday 24 July at 1751 BST, successfully completing the first manned Moon landing mission
www.flightglobal.comApollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, at 8:32 AM Central Daylight Time (CDT) with the goal of performing the first human landing on the Moon.
www.lpi.usra.eduOn July 20, 1969, a human walked on the Moon for the first time. Relive the full journey to and from the the Moon with this timeline.
airandspace.si.eduApollo 11 was the first crewed Moon landing. On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface and said,
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