On July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin entered the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle and descended to the lunar surface. The S-IVB was fired again once the CSM reached the Moon to insert the spacecraft into orbit around it. After 1 ½ Earth orbits, the S-IVB stage was re-ignited, putting the spacecraft on course for the Moon. Kennedy’s challenge for America to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth before the 1960’s decade had ended.Īpollo 11 was launched on a Saturn V on Jfrom Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the Eagle rendezvoused with the Command Service Module (CSM) Columbia, the astronauts returned to Earth, landing in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. During a historic 2 ½ hour lunar surface excursion, the astronauts set up scientific experiments, took photographs, and collected rock and soil samples. On July 20, 1969, two astronauts, Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, landed on the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) Eagle. The eight-day Apollo 11 mission marks the first time in mankind’s history that humans walked on the surface of another planetary body. The Navy units embarked on USS Hornet that participated in the Apollo 11 recovery were: Helicopter Anti-submarine Warfare Squadron Four (HS-4) flying the Sikorsky SeaKing SH-3D helicopter Underwater Demolition Teams Eleven and Twelve (UDT-11 and UDT-12) Airborne Early Warning Squadron VAW-111 flying the Grumman E-1B Tracer, and Fleet Logistics Support Squadron VR-30 flying the Grumman C-1A Trader. Armstrong and Aldrin were the first two humans to walk on the Moon.
McCain (CINCPAC) and several other dignitaries were present while Hornet recovered astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins and their spacecraft Columbia. On July 24, 1969, President Richard Nixon, ADM John S. USS Hornet (CVS-12) was selected by the Navy as the Prime Recovery Ship (PRS) for Apollo 11, America’s first lunar landing mission. Here are the most memorable ads that captured the Space Age.Compiled and Written by Museum Historian Bob Fish The Space Age extended way beyond advertising - it ushered in giant tailfins on American cars, Googie architecture, and ground-breaking science fiction films like Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." But these print adverts, which advertised everything from Frigidaire refrigerators to Omega wristwatches, managed to capture our love of all things space. Advertising naturally picked up on the trend and inserted planets, rockets, and astronauts wherever possible. Since then, America, and the rest of the world, was seized with a feverish obsession with all things interplanetary. The Space Age took off in October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. But the Space Age had already begun 12 years earlier.
When they returned, along with fellow Apollo 11 crewmember Michael Collins, humanity was more obsessed with space than ever. 50 years ago, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
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