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Launch of Artemis II SLS on April 1, 2026.

Launch Apollo 11 Saturn V on July 16, 1969.

AP Photo/John Raoux: link

NASA ID: GPN-2000-000627

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Apollo 11 (CM-107) Columbia at Ford Island, Hawaii.

Date: July 29-31, 1969

NASA ID: S69-22006

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Three images of Earth taken by Apollo 11 astronauts during the last few hours of their approach back to Earth (left to right) from 41,400 miles, 23,800 miles, and approximately 11,500 miles.

Date: July 22-23, 1969

NASA ID: link

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Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia (CM-107) reentering the Earth's atmosphere.

Photograph from the Leonard Pugh Collection.

Date: July 24, 1969

"APOLLO 11 (AS-506)." National Air and Space Museum. Accessed July 10, 2015. http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo11.cfm

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USS HORNET (CVS-12) entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, following the Apollo 11 recovery. On deck are various aircraft of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 59 (CVSG-59) and the Apollo 11 Capsule (CM-107). Following decontamination procedures, the three astronauts were placed in quarantine for 18 days until August 10, 1969.

Date: July 26, 1969

U.S. Navy photo: 428-KN-18090

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"Workers loaded Apollo 11 (CM-107) Columbia and the backup MQF onto a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster at Hickam AFB. After a refueling stop on the West Coast, Columbia arrived at Ellington on July 31 and workers trucked it to the LRL, where it was towed inside the spacecraft room."

Date: July 29, 1969

NASA ID: S69-56383, S69-56382

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The Apollo 11 Command Module (CM-107) is loaded aboard the Aero Spacelines B-377-SG Pregnant Guppy at Ellington Air Force Base for shipment to North American Rockwell Corp.

Date: December 1968

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"The Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Aboard the space craft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module (CM) pilot; and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module (LM) pilot. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished. These sketches illustrate the steps taken in going from lunar orbit onto the Moon’s surface. Apollo 11 commander, Neil Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin Aldrin transferred from the CM to the LM and the LM separated. Firing the descent stage engine in retrothrust slowed the LM and put it on the let down trajectory. Near the Lunar surface, the engine was used to lower the craft slowly to the surface. After a checkout of systems and depressurization of the LM cabin, the hatch was opened for Armstrong’s climb down the ladder to the Moon’s soil."

Date: July 6, 1969

NASA ID: 6902075