Rocco Petrone was the launch director for Apollo 11.
Past Robert J. Collier Trophy recipients include Orville Wright, the Apollo 11 crew, the Cessna Citation, the Gulfstream G650, and the James Webb Space Telescope Team.
The Apollo 11 lander touched down in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility.
The mid- or late-2029 window for a potential Artemis landing aligns with the 60th anniversary of Apollo 11 in July 2029.
The FOC-1A antenna transmitted the live images of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing to Italian television audiences.
Researchers re-examined soil samples returned by NASA's Apollo 11, 16, and 17 missions using modern instruments and methods.
DSS-14 received Neil Armstrong's famous words during Apollo 11, 'That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.'
Buzz Aldrin was alleged to have punched a man in 2022 for harassing him about the Apollo 11 mission being a hoax.
NASA's Apollo 11 mission marked the first time humans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the Moon's surface.
Technicians moved the SLS core stage from inside NASA Michoud on the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, 1969-07-16.
The USS Hornet was the primary recovery ship for the Apollo 11 and 12 missions.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company supplied essential products for NASA’s Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the Moon 53 years ago.
The 2021-07-20 New Shepard flight date coincides with the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and falls 60 years to the day after Alan Shepard became the first American in space on the suborbital Mercury 3 launch.
Sarah Huth is Astrobotic’s graphic designer and designed the Peregrine Mission One patch to reference previous historic missions using Peregrine bird imagery as a nod to NASA’s Apollo 11 patch.
S. 1964 passed the Senate by unanimous consent around the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 2019.
The Apollo 11 crew received the International Astronautical Federation’s World Space Award on the 50th anniversary of the mission.
Vice President Mike Pence reaffirmed the 2024 lunar landing goal in a 2019-07-20 speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
Since the initial release, the U.S. Mint partnered with Australia’s and Spain’s national mints to issue coin sets recognizing the tracking stations that supported the Apollo 11 mission.
Proceeds from the U.S. Mint’s sale of the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary coins benefit the Astronauts Memorial Foundation, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, and the National Air and Space Museum’s Destination Moon gallery scheduled to open in 2022.
The software developed for Apollo 11 had to be ultrareliable and capable of real-time error detection and recovery.