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Calculated Shard: 132 (from laksa166)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa132.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48789792\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48789792\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48789792","crawl_time":1773849094,"first_indexed_time":1563279109,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"uk,co,bbc!www,\/newsround\/48789792 s443","src_root_hash":"2272746388958996332","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Apollo 11 Moon landing: Everything you need to know - BBC Newsround","meta_descriptions":["It's 55 years since humans first set foot on the Moon. The successful Apollo 11 mission saw two US astronauts – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – walk on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Find out more about how it happened and why it was such a big moment."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Image source,\nNASA\nIt's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon.\nNeil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on\n20 July 1969\n. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: \"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\"\nA camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television.\nArmstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as \"magnificent desolation\".\nThey spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth.\nFind out more about the Apollo 11 mission below.\nMore on the Moon landing\nWhy was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important?\nThe simple reason is that it had\nnever\nbeen done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface.\nIn the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called\nthe space race\n. This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere.\nThis race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during\nthe Cold War\n- launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957.\nThen, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961.\nThe Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race.\nMedia caption,\nWATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017)\nSo, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous.\n\"We choose to go to the Moon!\" he said.\nUS space agency Nasa\ninvested lots of money (around $25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as\nthe Apollo programme\nand its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.\nAbout 400,000 people worked on it.\nThe Moon landing in numbers\nAbout 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission\nIt cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion)\nThe mission blasted off on 16 July 1969\nIt took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon\nThe lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969\nBy the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds\nA total of 12 people have walked on the Moon\nThe last people walked on the Moon in 1972\nMore space stories\nHow did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon?\nThe Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission.\nThe Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first.\nApollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire.\nOn the morning of\n16 July 1969\n, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity.\nImage source,\nGetty Images\nImage caption,\nThis picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching\nThe Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the\nCommand Module Columbia\n, a\nService Module\nand the\nLunar Module Eagle\n.\nIt took\nfour days\n,\nsix hours\nand\n45 minutes\nto get to the Moon.\nThe lunar module landed on the Moon at\n8:17pm\non\n20 July 1969\n.\nHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed\n— Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas\nImage source,\nGetty Images\nImage caption,\nThis pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission\nWhile astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface.\nWhen did Apollo 11 return to Earth?\nBy the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken\n8 days\n,\n3 hours\n,\n18 minutes\nand\n35 seconds\n.\nSadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963.\nIn the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made.\nImage source,\nGetty Images\nImage caption,\nJohn F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade\nWhat did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon?\nWhile many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission.\nThese including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment.\nThe astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied.\nThey also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs.\nIt reads: \"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.\"\nWhere were the women during the Apollo Moon landing?\nLooking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality.\nThe astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male.\nBut there were thousands of women supporting the mission.\nImage source,\nNASA\/ Getty Images\nImage caption,\nCan you spot the one woman in this room?\nWhich women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing?\nInstrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space.\nMathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the\nfilm Hidden Figures\n.\nImage source,\nNASA\nImage caption,\nKatherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11\nWhat other Moon missions have there been?\nThe US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface.\nThe Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17.\nAll of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems.\nImage source,\nGetty Images\nImage caption,\nAstronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon\nA total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.\nThe last people walked on the Moon in 1972.\nSince then, lots of countries have landed probes on the Moon, but none with people aboard.","attrs_markdown":"[BBC Homepage](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/)\n\n- [Skip to content](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48789792#main-heading)\n- [Accessibility Help](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/accessibility\/)\n\n- [Sign in](https:\/\/session.bbc.co.uk\/session?lang=en-GB&ptrt=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnewsround%2F48789792&sequenceId=ee2291f1-3080-40cb-ae75-c766be654171)\n\n- [CBBC](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc)\n- [CBBC iPlayer](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/tv\/cbbc)\n- [Newsround](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround)\n- [Bitesize](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize)\n- [CBeebies](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbeebies)\n- [CBBC on TV](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/guide\/cbbc)\n- [CBBC Help](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/curations\/cbbc-help)\n- [More menu](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48789792#global-navigation-more-menu)\n\n[More menu](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48789792#global-navigation-more-menu)\n\n[Search CBBC](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/search?d=NEWSROUND)\n\n- [CBBC](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc)\n- [CBBC iPlayer](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/tv\/cbbc)\n- [Newsround](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround)\n- [Bitesize](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize)\n- [CBeebies](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbeebies)\n- [CBBC on TV](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/guide\/cbbc)\n- [CBBC Help](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/curations\/cbbc-help)\n\nClose menu\n\n[Home](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc)\n\n[Menu]()\n\n- [Home](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc)\n- [Shows](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/shows)\n- [Games](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/games)\n- [Quizzes](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/quizzes)\n- [Watch](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/watch)\n- [Join In](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/joinin)\n- [Newsround](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround)\n\n[![Link to newsround](https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/childrens-web\/cbbc-product-navigation\/newsround-branding.58fb72a69d.svg)](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround)\n\n# Apollo 11 Moon landing: Everything you need to know\n![Buzz-Aldrin-stands-on-the-Moon](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/F574\/production\/_107563826_astronautedwine.aldrin-onthe-moon.jpg)\n\nImage source, NASA\n\n**It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon.**\n\nNeil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on **20 July 1969**. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: \"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\"\n\nA camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television.\n\nArmstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as \"magnificent desolation\".\n\nThey spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth.\n\nFind out more about the Apollo 11 mission below.\n\n**More on the Moon landing**\n\n[Quiz: How much do you know about the Moon landing?](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/49000786)\n\n[Try the CBBC Moon landing game](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/games\/man-on-the-moon-game)\n## Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important?\nThe simple reason is that it had *never* been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface.\n\nIn the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called [the space race](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/41483006). This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nThis race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during [the Cold War](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/47122488) - launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957.\n\nThen, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961.\n\nThe Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race.\n\n## To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\nThis video can not be played\n\nMedia caption,\n\nWATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017)\n\nSo, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous.\n\n\"We choose to go to the Moon!\" he said.\n\n[US space agency Nasa](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/44952511) invested lots of money (around \\$25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as **the Apollo programme** and its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.\n\nAbout 400,000 people worked on it.\n\n**The Moon landing in numbers**\n\n- About 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission\n- It cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion)\n- The mission blasted off on 16 July 1969\n- It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon\n- The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969\n- By the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds\n- A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon\n- The last people walked on the Moon in 1972\n\n**More space stories**\n\n[The Moon landing definitely happened - here's the proof](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48774080)\n\n[What does Earth look like from space?](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/47926055)\n\n[Slime and other weird things in space](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/42960487)\n## How did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon?\nThe Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission.\n\nThe Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first.\n\nApollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire.\n\nOn the morning of **16 July 1969**, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity.\n\n![Saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-Moon.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/782E\/production\/_107566703_saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-moon.jpg)\n\nImage source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nThis picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching\n\nThe Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the **Command Module Columbia**, a **Service Module** and the **Lunar Module Eagle**.\n\nIt took **four days**, **six hours** and **45 minutes** to get to the Moon.\n\nThe lunar module landed on the Moon at **8:17pm** on **20 July 1969**.\n\n> Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed\n\n— Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas\n\n![Mission-control-for-Apollo-11.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/C64E\/production\/_107566705_mission-control-apollo-11.jpg)\n\nImage source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nThis pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission\n\nWhile astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface.\n\n## When did Apollo 11 return to Earth?\nBy the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken **8 days**, **3 hours**, **18 minutes** and **35 seconds**.\n\nSadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963.\n\nIn the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made.\n\n![John-F-Kennedy.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/1146E\/production\/_107566707_john-f-kennedy.jpg)\n\nImage source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nJohn F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade\n## What did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon?\nWhile many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission.\n\nThese including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment.\n\nThe astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied.\n\nThey also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs.\n\nIt reads: \"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.\"\n## Where were the women during the Apollo Moon landing?\nLooking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality.\n\nThe astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male.\n\nBut there were thousands of women supporting the mission.\n\n![US-Apollo-11-control-room.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/161B5\/production\/_107894509_us-apollo-11-control.jpg)\n\nImage source, NASA\/ Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nCan you spot the one woman in this room?\n## Which women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing?\nInstrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space.\n\nMathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the [film Hidden Figures](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48619752).\n\n![Katherine-Johnson-sits-with-a-globe.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/14547\/production\/_94717238_katherine_johnson_john_glenn.png)\n\nImage source, NASA\n\nImage caption,\n\nKatherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11\n## What other Moon missions have there been?\nThe US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface.\n\nThe Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17.\n\nAll of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems.\n\n![John-Young-walks-on-the-surface-of-the-Moon.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/1628E\/production\/_107566709_astronaut-john-young-walks-on-the_moon.jpg)\n\nImage source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nAstronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon\n\nA total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.\n\nThe last people walked on the Moon in 1972.\n\nSince then, lots of countries have landed probes on the Moon, but none with people aboard.\n\n## More on this story\n- [The Moon landing definitely happened - here's the proof](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48774080)\n  \n  ![Buzz-Aldrin-with-flag-on-the-Moon](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/15F34\/production\/_107880998_buzz-aldrin-poses-next-to-flag.jpg)\n- [What does Earth look like from space?](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/47926055)\n- [Mum and daughter join more unusual space travellers](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/42960487)\n\nComments can not be loaded\n\nTo load Comments you need to enable JavaScript in your browser\n\nView comments \\| 2\n\n## Watch Newsround\n- [Watch Newsround. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [Read about our approach to external linking.](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/editorialguidelines\/guidance\/feeds-and-links)","attrs_readable_markdown":"![Buzz-Aldrin-stands-on-the-Moon](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/F574\/production\/_107563826_astronautedwine.aldrin-onthe-moon.jpg)Image source, NASA\n\n**It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon.**\n\nNeil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on **20 July 1969**. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: \"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.\"\n\nA camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television.\n\nArmstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as \"magnificent desolation\".\n\nThey spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth.\n\nFind out more about the Apollo 11 mission below.\n\n**More on the Moon landing**\n\nWhy was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important?\n\nThe simple reason is that it had *never* been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface.\n\nIn the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called [the space race](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/41483006). This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere.\n\nThis race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during [the Cold War](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/47122488) - launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957.\n\nThen, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961.\n\nThe Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race.\n\nMedia caption,\n\nWATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017)\n\nSo, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous.\n\n\"We choose to go to the Moon!\" he said.\n\n[US space agency Nasa](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/44952511) invested lots of money (around \\$25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as **the Apollo programme** and its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.\n\nAbout 400,000 people worked on it.\n\n**The Moon landing in numbers**\n\n- About 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission\n- It cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion)\n- The mission blasted off on 16 July 1969\n- It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon\n- The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969\n- By the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds\n- A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon\n- The last people walked on the Moon in 1972\n\n**More space stories**\n\nHow did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon?\n\nThe Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission.\n\nThe Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first.\n\nApollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire.\n\nOn the morning of **16 July 1969**, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity.\n\n![Saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-Moon.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/782E\/production\/_107566703_saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-moon.jpg)Image source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nThis picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching\n\nThe Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the **Command Module Columbia**, a **Service Module** and the **Lunar Module Eagle**.\n\nIt took **four days**, **six hours** and **45 minutes** to get to the Moon.\n\nThe lunar module landed on the Moon at **8:17pm** on **20 July 1969**.\n\n> Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed\n\n— Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas\n\n![Mission-control-for-Apollo-11.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/C64E\/production\/_107566705_mission-control-apollo-11.jpg)Image source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nThis pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission\n\nWhile astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface.\n\nWhen did Apollo 11 return to Earth?\n\nBy the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken **8 days**, **3 hours**, **18 minutes** and **35 seconds**.\n\nSadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963.\n\nIn the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made.\n\n![John-F-Kennedy.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/1146E\/production\/_107566707_john-f-kennedy.jpg)Image source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nJohn F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade\n\nWhat did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon?\n\nWhile many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission.\n\nThese including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment.\n\nThe astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied.\n\nThey also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs.\n\nIt reads: \"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.\"\n\nWhere were the women during the Apollo Moon landing?\n\nLooking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality.\n\nThe astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male.\n\nBut there were thousands of women supporting the mission.\n\n![US-Apollo-11-control-room.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/161B5\/production\/_107894509_us-apollo-11-control.jpg)Image source, NASA\/ Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nCan you spot the one woman in this room?\n\nWhich women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing?\n\nInstrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space.\n\nMathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the [film Hidden Figures](https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/48619752).\n\n![Katherine-Johnson-sits-with-a-globe.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/14547\/production\/_94717238_katherine_johnson_john_glenn.png)Image source, NASA\n\nImage caption,\n\nKatherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11\n\nWhat other Moon missions have there been?\n\nThe US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface.\n\nThe Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17.\n\nAll of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems.\n\n![John-Young-walks-on-the-surface-of-the-Moon.](https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/1628E\/production\/_107566709_astronaut-john-young-walks-on-the_moon.jpg)Image source, Getty Images\n\nImage caption,\n\nAstronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon\n\nA total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.\n\nThe last people walked on the Moon in 1972.\n\nSince then, lots of countries have landed probes on the Moon, but none with people aboard.","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Image source, NASA It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969 . As he did so, he spoke the famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television. Armstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as "magnificent desolation". They spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth. Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below. More on the Moon landing Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important? The simple reason is that it had never been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface. In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called the space race . This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere. This race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during the Cold War - launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957. Then, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961. The Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race. Media caption, WATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017) So, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous. "We choose to go to the Moon!" he said. US space agency Nasa invested lots of money (around $25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as the Apollo programme and its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. About 400,000 people worked on it. The Moon landing in numbers About 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission It cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion) The mission blasted off on 16 July 1969 It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969 By the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon The last people walked on the Moon in 1972 More space stories How did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon? The Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission. The Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first. Apollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire. On the morning of 16 July 1969 , astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching The Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the Command Module Columbia , a Service Module and the Lunar Module Eagle . It took four days , six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon. The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969 . Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed — Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface. When did Apollo 11 return to Earth? By the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken 8 days , 3 hours , 18 minutes and 35 seconds . Sadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963. In the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, John F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade What did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon? While many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission. These including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment. The astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied. They also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs. It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." Where were the women during the Apollo Moon landing? Looking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality. The astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male. But there were thousands of women supporting the mission. Image source, NASA/ Getty Images Image caption, Can you spot the one woman in this room? Which women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing? Instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space. Mathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the film Hidden Figures . Image source, NASA Image caption, Katherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11 What other Moon missions have there been? The US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface. The Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17. All of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Astronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. The last people walked on the Moon in 1972. Since then, lots of countries have landed probes on the Moon, but none with people aboard.
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Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television. Armstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as "magnificent desolation". They spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth. Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below. More on the Moon landing [Quiz: How much do you know about the Moon landing?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49000786) [Try the CBBC Moon landing game](https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/man-on-the-moon-game) ## Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important? The simple reason is that it had never been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface. In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called [the space race](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41483006). This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere. This race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during [the Cold War](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47122488) - launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957. Then, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961. The Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race. ## To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Media caption, WATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017) So, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous. "We choose to go to the Moon!" he said. [US space agency Nasa](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44952511) invested lots of money (around \$25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as the Apollo programme and its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. About 400,000 people worked on it. The Moon landing in numbers - About 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission - It cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion) - The mission blasted off on 16 July 1969 - It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon - The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969 - By the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds - A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - The last people walked on the Moon in 1972 More space stories [The Moon landing definitely happened - here's the proof](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48774080) [What does Earth look like from space?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47926055) [Slime and other weird things in space](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/42960487) ## How did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon? The Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission. The Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first. Apollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire. On the morning of 16 July 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity. ![Saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-Moon.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/782E/production/_107566703_saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-moon.jpg) Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching The Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the Command Module Columbia, a Service Module and the Lunar Module Eagle. It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon. The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969. > Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed — Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas ![Mission-control-for-Apollo-11.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/C64E/production/_107566705_mission-control-apollo-11.jpg) Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface. ## When did Apollo 11 return to Earth? By the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds. Sadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963. In the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made. ![John-F-Kennedy.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/1146E/production/_107566707_john-f-kennedy.jpg) Image source, Getty Images Image caption, John F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade ## What did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon? While many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission. These including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment. The astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied. They also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs. It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." ## Where were the women during the Apollo Moon landing? Looking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality. The astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male. But there were thousands of women supporting the mission. ![US-Apollo-11-control-room.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/161B5/production/_107894509_us-apollo-11-control.jpg) Image source, NASA/ Getty Images Image caption, Can you spot the one woman in this room? ## Which women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing? Instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space. Mathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the [film Hidden Figures](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48619752). ![Katherine-Johnson-sits-with-a-globe.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/14547/production/_94717238_katherine_johnson_john_glenn.png) Image source, NASA Image caption, Katherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11 ## What other Moon missions have there been? The US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface. The Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17. All of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems. ![John-Young-walks-on-the-surface-of-the-Moon.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/1628E/production/_107566709_astronaut-john-young-walks-on-the_moon.jpg) Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Astronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. The last people walked on the Moon in 1972. 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Readable Markdown	![Buzz-Aldrin-stands-on-the-Moon](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/F574/production/_107563826_astronautedwine.aldrin-onthe-moon.jpg)Image source, NASA It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A camera was able to transmit the moment to around 650 million people who were watching the Apollo mission on television. Armstrong was closely followed by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the Moon as "magnificent desolation". They spent 21 hours on its surface, including a seven-hour sleep, before returning to Earth. Find out more about the Apollo 11 mission below. More on the Moon landing Why was the Apollo 11 Moon landing so important? The simple reason is that it had never been done before - and it was a big ambition for countries, and their space programmes, to be the first to land a human on the Moon's surface. In the run-up to the Moon landing, the US was competing with the Soviet Union in something called [the space race](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41483006). This was a competition to be the first to complete missions exploring the world outside the Earth's atmosphere. This race started when the Soviets - the US's enemy during [the Cold War](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47122488) - launched the first Soviet Sputnik satellite in 1957. Then, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on 12 April 1961. The Americans wanted technological superiority - and it looked like the Soviets were winning in the space race. Media caption, WATCH: What was the space race? (October 2017) So, in 1962, US President John F Kennedy announced a big ambition, in a speech which is now very famous. "We choose to go to the Moon!" he said. [US space agency Nasa](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44952511) invested lots of money (around \$25 billion, which is around £20 billion) and effort into making this happen. The mission would come to be known as the Apollo programme and its goal was to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. About 400,000 people worked on it. The Moon landing in numbers - About 400,000 people worked on the Apollo 11 mission - It cost Nasa around £25 billion (£20 billion) - The mission blasted off on 16 July 1969 - It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon - The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969 - By the time the crew landed back on Earth, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds - A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - The last people walked on the Moon in 1972 More space stories How did Apollo 11 astronauts get to the Moon? The Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth - so the Apollo mission was not going to be an easy task. It was also a dangerous mission. The Apollo mission that would eventually land a man on the Moon - Apollo 11 - was not the first. Apollo 8 and 10 entered lunar orbit but didn't achieve the program's goal, while during Apollo 1, the crew of three tragically died in a launch pad fire. On the morning of 16 July 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins blasted off aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, which propelled them out of Earth's gravity. ![Saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-Moon.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/782E/production/_107566703_saturn-5-rocket-launches-to-the-moon.jpg)Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This picture shows the Saturn 5 rocket launching The Apollo 11 mission had three spacecraft: the Command Module Columbia, a Service Module and the Lunar Module Eagle. It took four days, six hours and 45 minutes to get to the Moon. The lunar module landed on the Moon at 8:17pm on 20 July 1969. > Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed — Neil Armstrong, Message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas ![Mission-control-for-Apollo-11.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/C64E/production/_107566705_mission-control-apollo-11.jpg)Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This pciture shows Mission Control for the Apollo 11 mission While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in the Eagle module, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours, he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface. When did Apollo 11 return to Earth? By the time the crew landed back on Earth, on July 24 1969, the mission had taken 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds. Sadly, Mr Kennedy never got to see his dream come true as he was killed in 1963. In the end, it was President Nixon who made the first telephone call to the Moon and the longest distance phone call (some 240,000 miles) ever made. ![John-F-Kennedy.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/1146E/production/_107566707_john-f-kennedy.jpg)Image source, Getty Images Image caption, John F Kennedy set a goal for the USA to get to the Moon by the end of the decade What did the Apollo 11 astronauts do on the Moon? While many say a big part of the lunar landing was technological superiority in the space race, there were other reasons it was such an important mission. These including establishing the technology to do it in the first place (which could have other uses), carrying out scientific exploration of the Moon, and developing human capability to work in a lunar environment. The astronauts carried out important experiments while on the surface, and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied. They also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the Eagle's legs. It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." Where were the women during the Apollo Moon landing? Looking at the coverage of Apollo, you might think that it is just white men who made the Apollo 11 mission a reality. The astronauts were all men, the mission controllers were all men and even the TV anchors were male. But there were thousands of women supporting the mission. ![US-Apollo-11-control-room.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/161B5/production/_107894509_us-apollo-11-control.jpg)Image source, NASA/ Getty Images Image caption, Can you spot the one woman in this room? Which women were involved in the Apollo Moon landing? Instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was the only woman in Apollo 11 launch control at Cape Canaveral. As an engineer, she was responsible for 21 channels of communications, as well as the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for the Saturn 5 rocket, which launched the astronauts into space. Mathematician Katherine Johnson was also part of Nasa and helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11. She was one of a group of female African-Americans who worked at Nasa and whose amazing story is told in the [film Hidden Figures](https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48619752). ![Katherine-Johnson-sits-with-a-globe.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/14547/production/_94717238_katherine_johnson_john_glenn.png)Image source, NASA Image caption, Katherine Johnson helped to calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11 What other Moon missions have there been? The US would go on to complete six crewed missions to the Moon, which landed a total of 12 astronauts (all men) on its surface. The Apollo missions, as they were called, all took place from 1969 to 1972 - from Apollo 11 right up to Apollo 17. All of the missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon apart from Apollo 13, which was supposed to go to the Moon, but had technical problems. ![John-Young-walks-on-the-surface-of-the-Moon.](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/1628E/production/_107566709_astronaut-john-young-walks-on-the_moon.jpg)Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Astronaut John Young walks on the surface of the Moon A total of 12 people have walked on the Moon - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. The last people walked on the Moon in 1972. Since then, lots of countries have landed probes on the Moon, but none with people aboard.
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