Apollo 11, the mission that Neil Armstrong went to the moon on, launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, NASA is a federal agency, so it was the country of the United States that actually sent him. Florida was just the state that he left from.
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NASA sent Neil Armstrong to the moon. But President Kennedy paid for the space mission.
Neil Armstrong
The first man on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. He was sent to the Moon because the Russians had already sent a man into space and America wanted to beat them so they sent a manned mission to the Moon.
Neil Armstrong was part of the Apollo 8 Mission into space. This mission sent 2 people on the moon; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren. Neil Amrstrong was the first American on the moon. In fact, he was also the first man on the moon.
Not personally, as Kennedy had been dead nearly six years by the time Armstrong landed on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin accompanied Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969. Together with Michael Collins, who remained in lunar orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin made history as the first humans to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong's boots were left on the moon along with nine other pairs of boots. They were left so that the moon rocks could come back. Weight issue.
The first manned mission to land on the moon was Apollo 11 in 1969. The 3 astronauts on board were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Neil Armstrong famously became the first human to walk on the moon.
Yes Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon, but Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first person to be sent into orbit around Earth, he was sent into orbit around Earth on April 12 in 1961
John F. Kennedy sent 3 men on the apollo 11: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong. four days later Aldrin and Armstrong landed on the moon Collins stayed in orbit. On july 20, armstrong was the first man on the moon.
The United States sent the first human to the moon. The Apollo 11 mission, crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, successfully landed on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.