The Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft that landed safely on the surface of the Moon and returned back to Earth. The date was 20th July 1969, when Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin where the first humans to step on the surface of the Moon. They spended about 2h 30mins in the surface of the Moon, where they collected 21.5kg of lunar material.Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Centre, and it was the fith manned mission of NASA's Apollo Program.
The spacecraft had three parts: the command module, for a cabin with a space for 3 astronauts, a service module, which supported the command modules with electrical power, propulsion, oxygen and water, and the lunar module, for landing on the moon.
They landed on the See of Tranquility, where they broadcasted on live TV when Amstrong stepped onto the lunar surface, which described the event as "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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