That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

The Apollo 11 mission was a huge moment in US and world ... A space race developed between the US and the then Soviet Union, after the 1957 launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite.

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil ... Module on flights to the Moon. Apollo 11's flight path took the spacecraft into Earth orbit 11 minutes after launch. Just over two hours later, during its ...