That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo ...

Apollo 11 remains one of the most famous flights since ... On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 was set up for a launch rehearsal test ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

It was a sentiment expressed by President Richard Nixon as he spoke to the crew of Apollo 11 from the Oval Office ... with the final launch in 1972. At the time, President Nixon was making plans ...

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BBC reporter Reginald Turnill reports from Houston, Texas on preparations for the Apollo 11 Moon mission. There, he speaks to Nasa astronaut Don Lind, who talks him through the equipment the ...