On this day 55 years ago, NASA made history and became the first and only space agency to launch a successful lunar landing mission. Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16th, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. local time. The mission lasted eight days, during which time the crew made history as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. After Apollo 11, NASA would successfully fly five more missions to the lunar surface and face a close scare with Apollo 13 before the end of the Apollo program in 1972, which also ended crewed […]
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