Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, a program which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon.
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island , Florida , on July 16 , and was the fifth manned mission of NASA 's Apollo program.
The Apollo program , also known as Project Apollo , was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -LRB- NASA -RRB- , which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
