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Apollo 11
The moon missions were given the name Apollo.
The Apollo space missions are numbered from Apollo 7 to 17.
The control center that Apollo 11 took off from was Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, oversaw the mission once it was in space.
The mission commander on the Apollo 11 space mission was Neil Armstrong. He was the first person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, followed by Buzz Aldrin.
Apollo 11
The moon missions were given the name Apollo.
Apollo 11
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the American Apollo space program. It was an F type mission - its purpose was to be a "dry run" for the Apollo 11 mission.
The Apollo space missions are numbered from Apollo 7 to 17.
The control center that Apollo 11 took off from was Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, oversaw the mission once it was in space.
The mission commander on the Apollo 11 space mission was Neil Armstrong. He was the first person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, followed by Buzz Aldrin.
After the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong did not return to space again. He flew on Apollo 11 in July 1969, becoming the first person to walk on the Moon, but he retired from NASA in 1971 and did not participate in any further space missions.
apollo 11
The Apollo mission continued from the 1960s until the 1990s
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Helen Zelon has written: 'The Gemini IV Mission' 'The Apollo 13 Mission' 'Apollo 11 mission' -- subject(s): Apollo 11 (Spacecraft), Project Apollo (U.S.), Juvenile literature, Space flight to the moon 'Focus on Health'