🛰️ Mission
Apollo 11
Two people walked on another world, and came back.
- Launched
- 16 July 1969, 57 years ago
- Landed
- 20 July 1969
- Worked for
- 8 days, until 24 July 1969
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- The lower half of its lander is still standing at Tranquility Base
- Best known for
- The first landing by people on another world, and 21.5 kg of the Moon brought home to study
Did you know?
- They spent about two and a half hours outside, and were never more than sixty metres from the lander.
- The computer guiding them down had less memory than a single photo on your phone, and it overloaded twice on the way.
Where it went
The Moon
Earth’s only natural moon, and the only other world people have walked on.
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