Apollo 11

1. The space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back in July 1969. The vehicle consisted of a command module, which stayed in lunar orbit, and a lunar module, which carried two of the three crewmen to a safe landing on the moon.

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The other members of the crew were Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, and Michael Collins.

On becoming the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong declared: “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”