Lift-off for Apollo 11
2009 July 16
The Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket was launched 40 years ago today, 16 July 1969 at 14:32 (BST), on humanity’s first manned mission to the moon. Amazing.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…
- President John F Kennedy, 12 September 1962
You can follow the mission, recreated in real-time by the JFK Presidential Library & Museum, at http://wechoosethemoon.org
