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Apollo 11 (27)
"The Eagle has landed."

Pad 39-A (5) 
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High Bay 1 
MLP 1 
Firing Room 1 

Perform manned lunar landing and return mission safely. (Achieved).

July 16, 1969; 09:32:00 am EDT. Launch Complex 39-A Kennedy Space Center, FL. No launch delays.

The splashdown May 26, 1969, of Apollo 10 cleared the way for the first formal attempt at a manned lunar landing. Six days before, the Apollo 11 launch vehicle and spacecraft half crawled from the VAB and trundled at 0.9 mph to Pad 39-A. A successful countdown test ending on July 3 showed the readiness of machines, systems, and people. The next launch window (established by lighting conditions at the landing site on Mare Tranquillitatis) opened at 9:32 AM EDT on July 16, 1969. The crew for Apollo 11, all of whom had already flown in space during Gemini, had been intensively training as a team for many months. The following mission account makes use of crew members' own words, from books written by two of them, supplemented by space-to-ground and press-conference transcripts. Click Here for Transcripts.

First manned lunar landing mission and lunar surface EVA. "HOUSTON, TRANQUILITY BASE HERE.THE EAGLE HAS LANDED." July 20, Sea of Tranquility. 

1 EVA of 02 hours, 31 minutes. Flag and instruments deployed; unveiled plaque on the LM descent stage with inscription: "Here Men From Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon. July 1969 A.D. We Came In Peace For All Mankind." 

Lunar surface stay time 21.6 hours;59.5 hours in lunar orbit, with 30 orbits. LM ascent stage left in lunar orbit. 20kg (44 lbs) of material gathered.

Altitude: 186km x 183km 
Orbits: 30 revolutions
Duration: 08 Days, 03 hours, 18 min, 35 seconds 
Distance: miles 
Lunar Location: Sea of Tranquility 
Lunar Coords: .71 degrees North, 23.63 degrees East

July 24, 1969; 12:50 p.m. EDT. Splashdown area 13deg 19min North and 169deg 9 min West; Splashdown at 195:18:35 MET. Crew on board U.S.S Hornet at 01:53 p.m. EDT; spacecraft aboard ship at 03:50pm.

Apogee 186km
Perigee 183km
Trans-lunar injection 02:44:26 MET (Mission Elapsed Time)
Maximum distance from Earth 389,645km
Lunar orbit insertion, 75:50:00 MET
First lunar landing, 102:45:39 MET (20 July at 04:17 p.m. EDT). 
First step on moon, 10:56:15 p.m. EDT
End of EVA, 111:39:13 MET (01:09 a.m. EDT)
First liftoff from moon, 124:22:00.8 MET (1:54 p.m. EDT)
LM-CSM docking, 128:03:00 MET
Trans-earth injection, 135:23:52.3 MET

Crew

Neil Armstrong
Commander

Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.  
Lunar Module Pilot 

Michael Collins
Command Module Pilot

11/21/68 - LM-5 Integration Systems Test complete 

12/06/68 - CSM-107 Integrated Systems Test complete 

12/13/68 - LM-5 acceptance test complete 

01/08/69 - LM-5 Ascent Stage delivered to KSC 

01/12/69 - LM-5 Descent stage delivered to KSC 

01/18/69 - S-IVB ondock at KSC 

01/23/69 - CSM ondock at KSC 

01/29/69 - Command and Service Module Mated 

02/06/69 - S-II Stage ondock at KSC 

02/20/69 - S-1C Stage ondock at KSC 

02/17/69 - Combined CSM-107 system tests complete 

02/27/69 - S-IU ondock at KSC 

03/24/69 - CSM-107 Altitude testing complete 

04/14/69 - Rollover of CSM from O&C to VAB 

04/22/69 - Integrated system test complete 

05/05/69 - CSM electrical mate to Saturn V 

05/20/69 - Rollout to Pad LC-39A 

06/01/69 - Flight Readiness Test 

06/26/69 - Countdown Demonstration Test 

07/16/69 - Launch