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| Command Module | CM-107 callsign Columbia mass 30,320 kg |
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| Service Module | SM-107 | ||||
| Lunar Module | LM-5 callsign Eagle mass 16,448 kg |
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| Crew size | 3 | ||||
| Booster | Saturn V SA-506 | ||||
| Launch pad | LC 39A Kennedy Space Center Florida, USA |
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| Launch date | July 16, 1969 13:32:00 UTC |
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| Lunar landing | July 20, 1969 20:17:40 UTC Sea of Tranquility 0°40′26.69″N 23°28′22.69″E / 0.6740806°N 23.4729694°E |
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| Lunar EVA duration | 2 h 36 m 40 s | ||||
| Lunar surface time | 21 h 31 m 20 s | ||||
| Lunar sample mass | 21.55 kg | ||||
| Number of lunar orbits | 30 | ||||
| Total CSM time in lunar orbit | 59 h 30 m 25.79 s | ||||
| Landing | July 24, 1969 16:50:35 UTC 13°19′N 169°9′W / 13.317°N 169.15°W |
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| Mission duration | 8 d 03 h 18 m 35 s | ||||
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| Left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin | |||||
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Apollo 10
Apollo 12The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon or Moon orbit. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a speech given before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
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