Apollo 11 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/12/2018

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Apollo 11


00:02:33 1 Background
00:08:01 2 Framework
00:08:10 2.1 Prime crew
00:09:36 2.2 Backup crew
00:10:23 2.3 Support crew
00:11:10 2.4 Capsule communicators
00:11:43 2.5 Flight directors
00:12:10 2.6 Insignia
00:13:43 2.7 Call signs
00:14:44 2.8 Mementos
00:15:29 2.9 Site selection
00:17:38 3 Preparations
00:20:25 4 Mission
00:20:33 4.1 Launch and flight to lunar orbit
00:23:35 4.2 Lunar descent
00:26:51 4.3 Landing
00:30:41 4.4 Lunar surface operations
00:39:31 4.5 Lunar ascent and return
00:45:59 4.6 Splashdown and quarantine
00:53:26 4.7 Celebrations
00:54:47 5 Legacy
00:54:56 5.1 Spacecraft
00:57:40 5.2 Moon rocks
00:59:14 5.3 40th anniversary events
01:01:22 6 Notes



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SUMMARY
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 13:32 UTC, and was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The Apollo spacecraft had three parts: a command module (CM) with a cabin for the three astronauts, and the only part that returned to Earth; a service module (SM), which supported the command module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water; and a lunar module (LM) that had two stages – a descent stage for landing on the Moon, and an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit.
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 into lunar orbit. Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into Eagle and landed in the Sea of Tranquillity. The astronauts used Eagle's upper stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Collins in the command module. They jettisoned Eagle before they performed the maneuvers that blasted them out of lunar orbit on a trajectory back to Earth. They returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24 after more than eight days in space.
The landing was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."