Did We Really Land On The Moon?

The primary goal of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: to land a crewed spacecraft on the moon and return to Earth. On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Kennedy, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people saw Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." During their two-hour moonwalk, Armstrong and Aldrin installed a device to measure the composition of solar wind reaching the Moon, a device to receive laser beams from astronomical observatories on Earth to ...