Celebrating 55 Years Since the Moon Landing: Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969

We are blessed to be in the USA! We are celebrating 55 years since the moon landing! July 20, 1969. Remember: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” -Neil Armstrong

Photo 18: Apollo 11
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I am sharing the all important NASA flight that started Moon landings:

Mission Summary:

NASA Apollo 11 Mission Summary – 1969
Launch	July 16, 1969
Mission	Apollo 11 Mission with Lunar module “Eagle”
Landing on Moon \| Splashdown	Moon: July 20, 1969 \| Earth: July 24, 1969
Astronauts	Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Information courtesy of NASA.gov

Photo by NASA on Unsplash

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Looking for a great future. We are all waiting for the next launch! Meantime, I will show a list of the major space programs flights from past days:

Mission Programs 1958 to Present:

Program	Start Date	First Crewed Flight	End Date	No. of crewed missions launched	Notes
Mission Programs – 1958 to Present
Mercury	1958	1961	1963	6	First U.S. Crew on a Mission
Gemini	1961	1965	1966	10	Practice Space Rendezvous/EVA’s
Apollo	1960	1968	1972	11	First Humans to Land on the Moon
Skylab	1964	1973	1974	3	First American Space Station
Apollo–Soyuz	1971	1975	1975	1	Joint Test Project with Soviet Union
Space Shuttle program	1972	1981	2011	135	First Missions Where spacecraft was Reused
Shuttle-Mir program	1993	1995	1998	11	Russian partnership
International Space Station	1993	1998	Ongoing	63	Joint with Roscosmos, CSA, ESA, and JAXA; Americans flew on Russian Soyuz after 2011 retirement of Space Shuttle
Commercial Crew Program	2011	2020	Ongoing	3	Current program to shuttle Americans to the ISS
Artemis program	2017	Ongoing	Ongoing	0	Current program to bring humans to the Moon again
Information courtesy of NASA.gov