APOLLO 11 MOON MISSION COMPLETED 40 YEARS

 The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

 It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon or Moon orbit.

 Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene Aldrin

 On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.

 The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s,