Apollo 11

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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.”

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The files contain previously classified transcripts from the astronauts aboard the Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 Moon landing missions in the 1960s and 1970s.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

Its office features a replica of the Apollo 11 command module and an authentic Enigma encryption machine from 1943—the German device cracked by Allied codebreakers including celebrated British mathematician Alan Turing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 saw approximately one-fifth of the global population tune in.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

Apollo 11 astronauts promoted “peace for all mankind.”

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

Gemini 10 had felt like a small local event compared to Apollo 11.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins