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The photography exhibition CONTACT LIGHT | images of apollo celebrates the voyages of the Apollo Astronauts beyond the earth’s boundaries. Discover extraordinary photographs with original quotations and signings.

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First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galeili after observing it through his telescope in 1609.

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Doesn't matter how cool you think you are, you'll never be as cool as Neil Armstrong and David Scott after reentering Earth on their severely malfunctioning Gemini-VIII spacecraft. March 17, 1966

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Pleased to see that India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft has returned these images of the #Apollo11 & 12 landing sites. Now lunar orbiting spacecraft of two nations have captured the LM descent stages resting peacefully decades after they sent humans to another world.

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After more than 21 hours on the lunar surface, at 17:54:00 UTC, Armstrong and Aldrin lifted off in Eagle's ascent stage to rejoin Collins aboard Columbia in lunar orbit.

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Take You Back: To the man who made us look past the sky, R.I.P. Neil Armstrong July 20, 1969 #Apollo11 #MOONLanding

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July 16, 1969 Neil Armstrong’s wife Jan and their boys watching the takeoff of #Apollo11

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To all the Flat Earthers & those who say that #Apollo Moon Landing were fake. These are some of the clearest images from a non-NASA space agency. Detailed images of the #Apollo11 and #Apollo12 landing sites on the Moon, via India's #Chandrayaan2 orbiter.

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#Apollo11 crew had to sign US customs' forms after returning from the moon on July 24, 1969, declaring that they brought moon dust & rock samples back. The declaration form was signed by crew members: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin & Michael Collins.

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#Apollo11 liftoff, Walter Cronkite: "What a moment! Man in the way to moon...", July 16, 1969

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Buzz Aldrin, #Apollo11 Lunar Module Pilot inside the Lunar Module LM as it rests on the lunar surface after completion of the Extravehicular Activities July 20, 1969

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One of the most iconic photographs of all time: Buzz Aldrin on the moon during the #Apollo11 mission, taken by Neil Armstrong | NASA. July 20, 1969

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Doesn't matter how cool you think you are, you'll never be as cool as Neil Armstrong and David Scott after reentering Earth on their severely malfunctioning Gemini VIII spacecraft. March 17, 1966

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Protestors in Moscow – demonstrating in support of Alexei Navalny – bombard police with snowballs #navalny #navalnyprotests #Russia #RussiaProtests

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July 20, 1969. 20:17 GMT. "Houston. Tranquility base. The Eagle has landed." "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind." Unforgettable and inspiring to a 7 year old kid.

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Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 is the only human, alive or dead that isn't in the frame of this picture, took July 21, 1969. #Apollo11 #MOONLanding

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Remembering who made #NationalMoonDay possible... #Apollo11 #space #Apollo1 July 20, 1969

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A WALK TO REMEMBER: Led by Neil Armstrong, the crew of the Apollo 11 is seen arriving atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39 on July 16, 1969 #Apollo11 #space

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"LRO images stitched together give a great view of the #Apollo 11 landing site"

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The untold story of the first moon landing... July 20, 1969 #tintin #Apollo11 #MOONLanding

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57 years ago today, a launch rehearsal incident resulted all three #Apollo1 crew members - Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom - were killed. This fantastic cartoon by the late Wayne Stayskal was published after the #Apollo11 moon landing. #NASA #Space

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#Apollo11 Crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin on July 11 1969. Saturn V rocket to the Moon

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55 years ago, July 24, 1969, the three #Apollo11 astronauts successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Here, the crew and a U.S. Navy underwater-demolition-team swimmer await pickup by a helicopter from the recovery ship USS Hornet.

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-- First base -- July 20, 1969

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Gene Cernan, #Apollo17 Last man to walk on the #moon : “Truth needs no defense. Nobody, nobody can ever take those footsteps that I made on the surface of the moon away from me.”

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I was seven when the #Apollo11 Eagle landed on the moon. I never forgot watching this on live tv... July 20, 1969

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Heartbreaking so soon after the very recent loss of Ken Mattingly. We lost an another hero of the American Space Odyssey, Frank Borman dies at 95. He led the first team of American astronauts to circle the moon Godspeed Frank Borman

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Armstrong's first photo after setting foot on the Moon (with rubbish) #Apollo11 #MOONLanding July 20, 1969

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Happy Birthday to the woman who made it possible for humankind to land on the moon, #MargaretHamilton ! #Born August 17, 1936 Margaret Hamilton led the team at @MIT that wrote the Apollo guidance software. #MargaretHamilton

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#HappyBirthday (August 5, 1930), to the man who made us look past the sky, Neil Armstrong!

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USS Hornet recovers the #Apollo11 capsule, July 24, 1969

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#Apollo10 paved the way for the upcoming manned lunar landing mission by successfully demonstrating the rendezvous and docking operations in lunar orbit #Space

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"To those people, tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from #Apollo11 ." Neil Armstrong, during their final TV broadcast of mission. July 23, 1969

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Today it's been 12 years without a legend. You are so missed. RIP Neil Armstrong August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012 We salute you. #Apollo11 #MOONLanding #NASA

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I'm so sorry to report some very sad news... Another astronaut hero has left us, - Ken Mattingly, who flew to the moon on #Apollo16 , has died at 87 - He piloted Apollo 16 and commanded the shuttle. But he may be best known for the mission he didn't fly: the ill-fated Apollo 13.

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I'm so sorry to report some very, very sad news... another astronaut hero has left us, - William Anders (90), the #Apollo8 astronaut who took the famed "Earthrise" photo in 1968, has died in plane crash in San Juan Islands. June 7, 2024

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Doesn't matter how cool you think you are, you'll never be as cool as Neil Armstrong and David Scott after reentering Earth on their severely malfunctioning Gemini-VIII spacecraft. March 17, 1966

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July 21, 1969 after spending a total of 21 h, 36min, 21 sec on the surface of The Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin fired the rocket engine of the LM’s Ascent Stage. Three hours and forty minutes later, the Eagle ascent stage docked with Columbia, the CSM, in lunar orbit.

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#OTD July 16, 1969 Apollo 11 left Earth to begin the first expedition to land humans on another world.

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On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No 2 blows up on #Apollo13 26 seconds later the famous radio message was sent 87 hours later the crew made it safely home The crisis that became @NASA 's 'most successful failure'

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Armstrong's first photo after setting foot on the Moon (with rubbish) #Apollo11 #MOONLanding July 20, 1969

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55 years ago today, a launch rehearsal incident resulted all three #Apollo1 crew members - Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom - were killed. This fantastic cartoon by the late Wayne Stayskal was published after the #Apollo11 moon landing. #NASA #Space

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"Fallen Astronaut" is a 3 inch tall aluminum sculpture of a human figure & plaque was left on the #moon on August 2, 1971 by #Apollo15 astronauts to commemorate astronauts and cosmonauts who had died, incl #Apollo1

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Preparing for #Apollo11 's Launch #OTD July 16, 1969 #Space #Nasa Apollo 11 Astronauts Suit Up - that was the Point of no return and so exciting for them , heroes or dead , nobody knew

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Buzz Aldrin during pre-flight suiting. July 16, 1969.

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"We went to the moon, but what we really discovered was the planet Earth." #Apollo8 December, 1968 Photo: Marco Grob for TIME

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In 1968, when NASA decided Apollo 8 would be a lunar orbit mission, return-to-Earth specialist Poppy Northcutt @poppy_northcutt became the first female engineer in Mission Control. With other engineers, she plotted return-to-Earth trajectories for #Apollo8

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July 20, 1969, #Apollo11 landed on the moon, the first time in history mankind has stepped on another celestial body. They left there, on the Sea of Tranquility, the #Apollo1 mission patch.

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"We went to the moon, but what we really discovered was the planet Earth." #Apollo8 December, 1968 Photo: Marco Grob for TIME

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June 11, 1969, #NASA officially announced the decision to attempt a lunar landing on the #Apollo11 mission, slated for mid-July.

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#Apollo11 "The boys are coming back" July 21, 1969

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#Apollo11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, await helicopter pickup from their life raft, July 24, 1969.

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Astronaut Michael Collins @AstroMCollins , Apollo 11 is the only human, alive or dead that isn't in the frame of this picture, took July 21, 1969. #Apollo11 #MOONLanding

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July 19, 1969 @NASA 's #Apollo11 went into orbit around the moon.

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August 19, 2007 – Backdropped by the Earth, the ISS is seen receding into the distance as the Shuttle Endeavour departs the orbital outpost.

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Earth and the Skylab space station, as seen from the departing Skylab 2 spacecraft, #OTD , June 22, 1973. (NASA)

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13 years ago today NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis lands for the final time (STS-135) July 21, 2011

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Happy 91th Birthday to legendary Apollo Flight Director (White Team) Gene Kranz (August 17, 1933). Seen here during a May 30, 1965 simulation for Gemini IV in the new Mission Operations Control Room #HappyBirthday Flight #ToughAndCompetent

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#OTD July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong on the Moon.... #Apollo11

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Rollout of the #Apollo11 Saturn V rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad.. May 20, 1969

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#Apollo11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong), " Day Launch ", Kennedy Space Center, July 16, 1969

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, inside the Lunar Module during checkout and inspection after hatch opening. July 20, 1969 #Apollo11

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July 22, 1969, 10:30pm ET - #Apollo11 astronauts inside their Command Module, on the way back to Earth.

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July 20, 1969 Charlie Duke: [as Apollo 11 CapCom] Roger, how does it look? Neil Armstrong: The Eagle has wings! #Apollo11 #MOONLanding

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On April 13, 1970, disaster strikes 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No 2 blows up on #Apollo13 26 seconds later the famous radio message was sent 87 hours later the crew made it safely home The crisis that became @NASA 's 'most successful failure'

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Charlie Duke, Moonwalker #Apollo16 : “We’ve been to the moon nine times. If we faked it, why did we fake it nine times?”

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An interior view of the #Apollo11 Lunar Module LM showing displays and controls during checkout and inspection after hatch opening. July 20, 1969

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The Wright Brothers flew for exactly 120 feet over 12 seconds on December 17, 1903. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Only 65 years, 7 months, 3 days later. #Apollo11

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#Apollo11 launch, Houston, T+01:54 : " Stand by for Mode One Charlie" July 16, 1969

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Happy Birthday, Neil Armstrong! #Apollo11 Moonwalker Would Have Been 94. Born on August 5, 1930

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A technician works atop the white room, through which the astronauts will enter the spacecraft, on July 11, 1969. #Apollo11

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55 years since a human first set foot on the moon. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins did the impossible and today remind us to dream big... July 21, 1969 - The Washington Post #Apollo11 #Apollo50th #MOONLanding

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Buzz Aldrin sitting in front of the Gemini control panel... with pipe in mouth, and slide rule floating nearby. When the rendezvous computer on Gemini XII failed, Buzz calculated the rendezvous by hand, ultimately using less fuel than any other mission.

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July 18, 1969, #Apollo11 takes a picture of us. "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small” – N.Armstrong

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#OTD March 25, 1928 #HappyBirthday to Gemini 7 & 12, #Apollo8 , #Apollo13 Astronaut James Lovell (96), the first of only 3 people to have flown to the moon TWICE!

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"Holy mackerel!...! Michael Collins, Gemini X July 18, 1966

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[WHAT A VIEW!] David Scott looks out on the #earth from his #Apollo9 command module March 1969

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Remembering astronaut and artist Alan Bean, born today March 15 1932. Moonwalker during Apollo 12, he served as commander for Skylab III and worked in the astronaut office. He later retired from NASA and the Navy, devoting his time to painting his memories of sights few had seen

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June 16, 1977 - Wernher von Braun who is considered by #NASA to be the "Father of Rocket Science" dies at age 65. "We can lick gravity but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

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Happy Birthday to the legendary “White Flight,” Gene Kranz. 🚀 One of the most recognized faces of the Moonlanding era though he never left Earth. He was born August 17, 1933, in Toledo, Ohio. Happy Birthday, Flight.

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"We went to the moon, but what we really discovered was the planet Earth." #Apollo8 December, 1968 Photo: Marco Grob for TIME

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Can you spot the Lunar Module in the distance? #Apollo17 , Station 6 - North Massif. December 1972

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May 21 1969 - #Apollo10 enters orbit around the Moon.

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July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launches #Apollo11

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“Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.” Bruce McCandless II CAPCOM #Apollo11 EVA July 20,1969

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Very probably the greatest piece of timing in Television history as JAMES BURKE introduces with glorious precision the launching of Voyager 2, August 20, 1977.

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#Leonov made history on March 18, 1965, when he left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, making the first walk in #space

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Silent memorial on the Moon. The astronauts of #Apollo15 left this plaque on the lunar surface, in memory of 14 fallen NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts. #NASARemembers #DayOfRemembrance #Honor .

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"High Above The Blue" - Skylab was the first space station launched and operated by NASA. Its launch on May 14, 1973 was also the final flight of the mighty Saturn V rocket.

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10 months

December 24 Christmas Eve And this moment: 12-24-1968; #Apollo8 watched "Earthrise"; the astronauts read from the Book of Genesis. CMP Jim Lovell said: "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth."

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#Apollo11 liftoff, Walter Cronkite: "What a moment! Man in the way to moon...", July 16, 1969

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10 months

January 6, 1969 the head of the astronaut office at Nasa, Deke Slayton, called the crew of #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin & Michael Collins into his office in Houston, and told them that their mission, set for July, might involve a lunar landing.

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9 months

Today marks 38 years since the Space Shuttle #Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all seven onboard. January 28, 1986

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53 years ago today, Apollo 15’s crew David Scott, James Irwin on board the LM, Falcon, touched down on the surface of the moon. July 30, 1971: #NASA History #Apollo15 mission landed first battery powered lunar rover onto the moon.

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"God, that moon is beautiful..." E. Cernan #Apollo10 May 21, 1969

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I was seven when the #Apollo11 Eagle landed on the moon. I never forgot watching this on live tv... July 20, 1969

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1/3 #Apollo15 almost came to ruin the second it touched down (july 30, 1971). #NASA had strict rules about how sharp an angle was safe for a LEM landing, and a 15-degree slope was the absolute maximum. Any steeper and liftoff could be compromised.

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At this moment, 55 years ago...the #Apollo11 crew splashed down at 12:49 a.m. ET, July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and 12 nautical miles from the USS Hornet. They awaited pickup by helicopter.