NASAs crowning achievement of the 20th century was the Apollo 11 mission. This mission sent a three-man crew into orbit around the Moon and landed two of those crewmembers on the surface of the ...
Read more→Four days after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, the three-man crew of Apollo 11 approached the surface of the moon. Now housed within a command module and attached lunar ...
Read more→The 20th century was one of the most amazing in the history of humanity, with mankind evolving its technologies quickly from an inability to fly to landing men on another celestial body other than ...
Read more→The Apollo 11 Series from the North American Mint celebrates the 50th anniversary of NASAs mission to the moon. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned crew to enter space on a NASA flight and ...
Read more→In 1961, the United States was reeling as Americans found themselves seemingly far behind the Soviet Union in the Space Race. In 1959, the Soviet Union had successfully launched the Sputnik satellite. Though the ...
Read more→After nearly a full day on the surface of the moon, the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission reconnected in the command module as Armstrong and Aldrin returned from the moons surface. The two ...
Read more→Over the course of more than a week in 1969, NASA astronauts from the United States of America achieved something that humanity had never achieved before. The crew of Apollo 11 left Earths boundaries ...
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