II 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2726 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 6, 2016 
Received 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemo-
rative coins in recognition of the 50th anniversary of 
the first manned landing on the Moon. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Apollo 11 50th Anni-
versary Commemorative Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft 
launched from Launch Complex 39A at the John F. 
Kennedy Space Center carrying Neil Armstrong, 
Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, who would become 
the first of mankind to complete a crewed lunar 
landing. 
(2) The United States is the only country ever 
to have attempted and succeeded in landing humans 
on a celestial body off the Earth and safely return-
ing them home, completing an unprecedented engi-
neering, scientific and political achievement. 
(3) The Apollo 11 mission, culminating in 
man’s first steps on the Moon on July 20, 1969, 
honored the fallen astronauts of the Apollo 1 crew, 
whose innovative work and bravery will be remem-
bered forever. 
(4) Apollo 11 accomplished the national goal set 
forth in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, who 
stated at Rice University the following year, ‘‘We 
choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the 
Moon in this decade and do the other things, not be-
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cause they are easy, but because they are hard, be-
cause that goal will serve to organize and measure 
the best of our energies and skills, because that 
challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one 
we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we in-
tend to win’’. 
(5) At the height of the Cold War, the Apollo 
space program provided the United States and the 
free world with a powerful symbolic win, dem-
onstrating the strength, ambition, and determination 
of the United States in technological and economic 
advancement, and securing our Nation’s leadership 
in space for generations to come. 
(6) The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration’s (referred to in this Act as ‘‘NASA’’) 
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala-
bama, designed, assembled, and tested the most 
powerful launch vehicle in history, the Saturn V 
rocket, which was used for the Apollo missions in 
the 1960s and 1970s. 
(7) The Saturn V weighed 6,200,000 pounds 
and generated 7,600,000 pounds of thrust, which 
NASA has equated to generating more power than 
86 Hoover Dams. 
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(8) During the time period from 1969 through 
1972, NASA completed eight Apollo missions and 
landed 12 men on the Moon. The 6 missions that 
landed on the Moon returned with a wealth of 
groundbreaking scientific data and over 800 pounds 
of lunar samples. 
(9) An estimated 400,000 Americans contrib-
uted to the successful program that led to the lunar 
landing on July 20, 1969, including NASA sci-
entists, engineers, astronauts, industry contractors 
and their engineering and manufacturing workforce, 
as well as the political leadership of Republicans and 
Democrats in Congress and the White House. 
(10) The Apollo program, along with its prede-
cessor Mercury and Gemini programs, inspired gen-
erations of American students to pursue careers in 
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
(STEM), which has fueled innovation and economic 
growth throughout a range of industries over the 
last four decades. 
(11) July 20, 2019, will mark the 50th anniver-
sary of the Apollo 11 landing of Neil Armstrong and 
Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface. 
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