OTD in Space – July 16: Apollo 11 launches to the Moon

On July 16, 1969, NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off on their famous mission to land ...
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Apollo 11 launch anniversary: Celebrating NASA’s historic mission that sent humanity to the moon

July 16 this year marks the 57th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which saw two men walk on the Moon.
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One Small Step Back in Time: Relive the Wonder of Apollo 11

Yet no human has been back to the lunar surface since the last Apollo astronaut left it in 1972, and plans to put people on ...

OTD: NASA's Apollo 11 Mission Moon Landing With Neil Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins Launched; In Pics

On July 16, 1969 the daring mission began. On July 20, Apollo 11 put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon's surface ...

Apollo boilerplate to be centrepiece of Powerhouse Parramatta's opening exhibition

It took 43 days and a custom cage to bring the 4.5-tonne test command module from Washington to Castle Hill in Sydney's north ...
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OTD In Space – July 15: Apollo-Soyuz Launch

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They ...

An astronaut hid seeds in his luggage bound for the Moon: decades later they are still growing across the country

In 1971 Stuart Roosa — the command module pilot of Apollo 14 — carried hundreds of tree seeds around the Moon.