This year marks the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins & Buzz Aldrin
The Air and Space Museum in Washington DC is the 3rd most visited museum in the world, and the most visited in the United States. The museum maintains the world’s largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft including the Apollo 11 command module.
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 16 July 1969 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).
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.
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program and the last mission in which humans have travelled to and walked on the Moon launched on the 7 December 1972.
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