Apollo 11 moon landing

LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). Saturn -5 rocket launch with apollo 11 spacecraft. Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont

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Apollo 11 Moon Landing 50th Anniversary Print

A view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface. Image credit: NASA

It’s been 50 years since the moon landing. Let’s take a look back at this historic event.

Surely there were men of color who also served NASA in those days but I cannot find their names or their photographs - Jan Edmiston https://t.co/KyPEaL548A https://t.co/xaJrmQcNzS

Incredible new graphics show in detail exactly how Apollo 11 would have functioned from its take off, how Mission Control in Texas monitored them and the crew spent 21 days in quarantine afterwards.

Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements.

Fifty years later, it still boggles the mind that humans visited the moon.