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National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Successful

Apollo 11

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Historical mission record

This page records Saturn V | Apollo 11 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

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Mission status
Launch Successful

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

Apollo 11 was commanded by Neil Armstrong , Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" E. Aldrin. The Mission was to complete the goal that President John F. Kennedy set on May 25, 1961 to land a man on the moon and return the crew back to Earth. On July 20,1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there Lunar Module on the sea of tranquility this marked the first time a human has set foot upon another celestial body.

Launch vehicle
Saturn V
Mission type
Human Exploration
Destination orbit
Lunar Orbit
Spacecraft
Apollo Columbia CSM-107
Destination
Lunar Orbit where the LM would detach and perform the first human moon landing.
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A
Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Programs
Apollo
The people behind the mission

Meet the crew

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Launch crew

Apollo Columbia CSM-107

Landing crew (3)Apollo Columbia CSM-107

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Saturn V
Launch vehicle

Saturn V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Height
110.6 m
Diameter
10.1 m
Stages
3
Recorded launches
13
First flight
1967-11-09

Recorded timing

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Flight timeline

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  1. T+00:00:00

    Liftoff

  2. T+00:01:23

    Max-Q

  3. T+00:02:41

    MECO

  4. T+00:02:42

    Stage 2 Separation

  5. T+00:02:43

    SES

  6. T+00:03:17

    Launch Escape Jettison

Show the full sequence (13 events)
  1. T+00:09:08

    SECO

  2. T+00:09:09

    Stage 3 Separation

  3. T+00:09:12

    Stage 3 Ignition

  4. T+00:11:39

    Stage 3 Cutoff

  5. T+02:44:16

    Stage 3 Ignition

  6. T+02:50:13

    Stage 3 Cutoff

  7. T+03:17:00

    CSM Seperation

Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

The mission in perspective

Launch site

DestinationLunar Orbit

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