Every chapter of Apollo 11, in sequence.
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July 16, 1969 · 13:32 UTC
At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V ignited at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, producing some 7.6 million pounds of thrust. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins rode the most powerful machine ever flown.
An estimated one million spectators lined the Florida coast. Twelve minutes later, Apollo 11 was in Earth orbit.
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July 16, 1969 · 16:16 UTC
After one and a half orbits checking every system, the S-IVB third stage reignited for the translunar injection burn — nearly six minutes that accelerated Apollo 11 to roughly 10.8 km/s and set it on a course for the Moon.
Shortly after, Collins performed the transposition and docking maneuver, extracting the lunar module Eagle from its adapter atop the spent stage.
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July 17, 1969 · 13:32 UTC
For three days the spacecraft coasted across 380,000 kilometers of void, slowly rotating in 'barbecue roll' to even out the Sun's heat. The Earth shrank to a blue marble behind them.
The crew made television broadcasts to a watching world and performed a single mid-course correction — their aim was that good.
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July 19, 1969 · 17:21 UTC
Behind the Moon, out of contact with Earth, the service module engine burned for six minutes to slow the spacecraft into lunar orbit. The crew became the third group of humans to see the far side with their own eyes.
Below them, the Sea of Tranquility waited.
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July 20, 1969 · 20:17 UTC
Eagle separated from Columbia and began its powered descent. Program alarms — 1202, 1201 — flashed as the computer overloaded; mission control called 'go.' Armstrong took semi-manual control, flying past a boulder field with fuel running low.
At 4:17 p.m. EDT on July 20, the contact light lit. 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'
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July 21, 1969 · 02:56 UTC
Six and a half hours after landing, Armstrong descended the ladder and stepped onto the surface — watched live by an estimated 600 million people, the largest television audience in history to that point.
Aldrin followed nineteen minutes later, describing the scene as 'magnificent desolation.' In 2 hours 31 minutes outside, they raised the flag, deployed experiments, and collected 21.5 kg of lunar samples.
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July 21, 1969 · 17:54 UTC
Eagle's ascent stage lifted off from the Moon — the first launch from another world — leaving the descent stage as a monument at Tranquility Base.
Hours later, Armstrong and Aldrin docked with Columbia, where Collins had kept solitary watch through 30 lunar orbits. Eagle was jettisoned, and the service module engine fired for the trip home.
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July 24, 1969 · 16:50 UTC
Columbia hit the atmosphere at nearly 11 km/s and splashed down in the Pacific, 1,440 km southwest of Hawaii, where the USS Hornet was waiting. President Kennedy's goal — set eight years earlier — was met with five months to spare.
The crew spent 21 days in quarantine, then toured a changed world. Five more crews would follow them to the lunar surface.
Sources: NASA Apollo 11 Mission Overview · NASA History — Apollo 11 Timeline