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Apollo 11

A crewed space mission that NASA’s history account associates with humanity’s first crewed lunar landing in July 1969.

Completed Verified 2026-10-02

Overview

Identity and context

Apollo 11 was a crewed space mission that NASA associates with humanity’s first crewed landing on the Moon. The available evidence comes from NASA’s institutional page Explore NASA’s History. Its text states that NASA astronauts made humanity’s first crewed lunar landing in July 1969 and identifies the mission as Apollo 11. This establishes the mission’s place in the history of human space exploration through a specific milestone, without attributing characteristics that the supplied sources do not describe.

Documented role and significance

The verifiable event in this record is the crewed lunar landing: NASA’s page presents Apollo 11 as the mission associated with the first human landing on the Moon. The same reference notes that five more Moon landings took place over the following three years. That comparison provides historical context for Apollo 11’s milestone, but it does not identify those other missions or explain how they were planned, carried out, or coordinated. This profile therefore focuses on the mission’s documented nature and the place the source assigns to it in that sequence.

Limits of the available information

The supplied evidence does not specify launch or return dates, mission duration, crew members’ names, vehicles, instruments, particular locations of activity, or scientific results. It also gives no separate catalogue number: Apollo 11, the designation explicitly used by the source, is therefore used here as the identifier. The classification as completed reflects the historical event described and the editorial scope of a mission archive; the cited source is not a technical profile or a full chronology. Any further operational detail would require documentation beyond the evidence provided here.

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Sources and references

  1. Missions - NASA NASA
  2. ESA - ESOC: Past, current and future missions European Space Agency
  3. Explore NASA's History - NASA NASA
  4. Completed Missions | NASA's Earth Observing System NASA
  5. Space Shuttle History Resources - NASA NASA
  6. https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/60counting/NASA: 60 Years & Counting - Human Spaceflight NASA
  7. KSC Historical Report 18 KHR-18 Rev. December 2003 UNITED STATES SPACE NASA
  8. Cassini / Huygens Program Archive Plan for Science Data PD 699-068 NASA
  9. All Missions | NASA's Earth Observing System NASA
  10. Science Missions - NASA Science NASA

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