Tuesday, July 30th 2013
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on another world. The 8-day NASA mission captivated the planet as the duo explored the lunar surface, supported by Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, who orbited overhead. 44 years after the first successful landing of the Apollo program, we’ve dug into the NASA archives to find some familiar and some not-so-familiar views of the Apollo 11 mission. All photos and captions can be found in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Gallery (http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/).