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<h1><imgalt="Saturn V carrying Apollo 11" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Apollo_11_Launch2.jpg/160px-Apollo_11_Launch2.jpg" style="border:1px solid #ccc;float:right;margin-left:15px;padding:5px;" /> Apollo 11</h1>
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<p><b>Apollo 11</b> was the spaceflight that landed the first humans, Americans <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong">Neil Armstrong</a> and <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" title="Buzz Aldrin">Buzz Aldrin</a>, on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.</p>
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<p>Broadcast on live TV to a world-wide audience, Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as:</p>
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<blockquote>One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.</blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Apollo 11 effectively ended the <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a> and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by the late U.S. President <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> in a speech before the United States Congress:</p>
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<blockquote>[...] before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.</blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>[...] before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.</p></blockquote>
<p>After being sent to the Moon by the Saturn V's upper stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and travelled for three days until they entered into lunar orbit. Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into the Lunar Module and landed in the <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Tranquillitatis" title="Mare Tranquillitatis">Sea of Tranquility</a>. They stayed a total of about 21 and a half hours on the lunar surface. After lifting off in the upper part of the Lunar Module and rejoining Collins in the Command Module, they returned to Earth and landed in the <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> on July 24.</p>
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