Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was scheduled to fulfill an age-old dream of mankind. July 16,1969, Was the fateful day when the Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 rose gracefully into the air from cape Canaveral. Its crew whose names were to go down in history, Were all experienced astronauts from the Gemini programmed- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin. Their launch and outward voyage to the Moon proved faultless, a good omen for their later success.

The Apollo flight plan required a space craft made up of three sections or modules. The three-man crew were housed in the command module (CM) linked to the main equipment section, the service module (SM). For the outward fight the CM was mated to the lunar module (SM). For the outward fight the CM was mated to

The lunar module (LM) when the craft reached Lamar orbit. Armstrong and Aldrin crawled into the LM nicknamed Eagle and separated it from the CM for the descent to the selected landing spot in the sea of tranquility one of the Moons land plains After their moon walk, they returned to dock with the CM orbiting above the LM was then discarded before the flight home.