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Apollo 11

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. Apollo 11 launched July 16, 1969 and landed back on Earth on July 24, 1969.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle during the...
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the lunar module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission.
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, moves toward a position to deploy two components of the Early Apollo...
On July 20, 1969, the America's Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making history as the first humans set foot...
Aldrin Looks Back at Tranquility Base
AS11-40-5880 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's boot and bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with...
Buzz Aldrin's boot making a footprint on the moon
A close-up view of an astronaut's boot print in the lunar soil, photographed with a lunar surface camera during the...
A close-up view of an astronaut's boot print in the lunar soil, photographed with a lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Moon.
AS11-40-5954 (20 July 1969) --- This crater which was located near the point the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) touched...
AS11-37-5528 (20 July 1969) --- This photograph of astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, was taken inside the Lunar...
AS11-37-5475 (20 July 1969) --- The black shadow of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) is silhouetted against the surface...
Shadow of the Apollo 11 lunar module
The far side of the Moon is rough and filled with craters. By comparison, the near side of the Moon,...
Crater 308 on lunar surface
AS11-44-6642 (21 July 1969) --- The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E....
View of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module in lunar orbit as seen by Michael Collins on the command module. The Moon is seen in the background and the Earth can be seen in the distance right over the horizon.
AS11-44-6689 (16-24 July 1969) --- One-third of the Earth's sphere illuminated, Earth's terminator, sunglint, a portion of east Africa, as...
S69-40302 (24 July 1969) --- A group of NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) officials join in with the flight...
Celebrations in mission control after Apollo 11 splashes down
View of Mission Control Center celebrating conclusion of Apollo 11 mission
View of Mission Control Center celebrating conclusion of Apollo 11 mission
NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC, later renamed Johnson Space Center) officials join the Mission Operations Control Room flight controllers...
NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC, later renamed Johnson Space Center) officials join the Mission Operations Control Room flight controllers in celebrating the successful splashdown of the Apollo 11 crew.
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon (center), aboard the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier, used binoculars to watch the Apollo 11 Lunar...
Richard Nixon uses binoculars to watch the Apollo 11 recovery
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Saturn V...
The Apollo 11 command module floats in the Pacific Ocean after splashdown
The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module is photographed being lowered to the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery ship...
The Apollo 11 command module, scorched from its return to Earth from space, is lowered on to the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet. The flotation ring has been disengaged from the capsule. Several men on deck assisting in the job wear hard hats and life preservers.
S69-40758 (24 July 1969) --- The Apollo 11 spacecraft Command Module (CM) and the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) are photographed...
The Apollo 11 command module onboard the USS Hornet recovery ship
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via a Saturn V...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via a Saturn V...
Apollo 11 crew inside the mobile quarantine facility
President Richard M. Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the USS...
In Quarantine
On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.
Apollo 11 crew after splashdown
Biologist Elaine Muñoz transfers an Apollo 11 lunar sample in the glove box in the Lunar Biological Laboratory.
A black and white photo of NASA biologist Elaine Muñoz, wearing clean room attire, handling a lunar sample through one of the lab's glove boxes.
View of the entrance of the Apollo 11 command module and lunar rock sample exhibit.
View of the entrance of the Apollo 11 command module and lunar rock sample exhibit.
President George Bush speaks at the National Air and Space Museum's 20th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 Moon landing....
George H.W. Bush speaks on stage with the Apollo 11 astronauts at an event at the National Air and Space Museum.
Apollo astronauts from left, Walt Cunningham (Apollo 17), James Lovell (Apollo 8 Apollo 13), David Scott (Apollo 9 Apollo 15),...
Jim Lovell and 6 other Apollo astronauts on the stage for an Apollo 40th anniversary celebration
NASA Apollo 11 Mission Commander and first man to set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong speaks at the Apollo...
Neil Armstrong at Apollo 40th anniversary celebration
On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member,...
Portrait of Buzz Aldrin giving a speech
On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member,...