That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world ... A space race developed between the US and the then Soviet Union, after the 1957 launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite.

A brief look at four: Amid the sea of white shirts, black ties and pocket protectors inside NASA’s firing room for the liftoff of Apollo 11 sat JoAnn Morgan. July 16, 1969 was her prime-time ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...

liftoff, landing and return of this historic mission—one of humanity’s greatest achievements and the first to put men on the moon. With a newly-discovered trove of never-before-seen 70mm footage and ...

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on its surface. Astronaut Michael Collins, the third man on the Apollo 11 mission ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16 ... on July 16, 1969. The Saturn V rocket launches from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 a.m ...

The successful Apollo 11 mission delivered two American astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 (while Michael Collins famously remained in orbit).