July 16, 2025
On this date in 1969, Apollo 11 – with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., aboard – was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, KSC, at 9:32 a.m. In just four days, Armstrong and Aldrin would become the first two people to set foot on the moon.
The image on the left is of the Saturn V rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 11, lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on July 16th, 1969. The image on the right of the Apollo 11 crew in their spacesuits. Pictured from left to right is Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
Images courtesy of NASA.
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