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The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit).

The Apollo 11 astronauts used advanced technology to land ... The rocket needed to be incredibly powerful to break from the Earth's orbit and blast off into space, sending a spacecraft 250,000 ...

Provided all goes well with Apollo 10 and lunar orbit checkout of the lunar module’s radar and guidance systems, the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft will complete just under two months of pad ...

She was on the team that specialized in trans-earth injection, the maneuvers that put the spacecraft on course to return to Earth from lunar orbit. During missions including Apollo 8, Apollo 11 ...

For those who watched the Apollo 11 astronauts park their lunar lander ... The first lander, LM-1, went into earth orbit on a Saturn rocket on January 22, 1968, for unmanned testing of its ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

Once in space, the astronauts escaped Earth orbit, traveled to lunar orbit ... But the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 reminds us that this laughably ambitious goal has in fact already been proved ...

With the Moon looming ever larger in her windows, Apollo 11 splits into two sections. The countdown to the lunar landing has begun. Collins stays in lunar orbit with the Command Module (CM).

Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. This is a vintage oversize photograph from July 1969 of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. NASA (The National Aeronautics ...