The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

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Half a century ago, on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts took off for the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins arrived four days later to a place no human being had ...

These are my buddies Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins ... of the first mission to land on the Moon. On the 20 July 1969, he became the first person to walk on the Moon. When Neil returned, he ...