The Apollo 11 Mission Highlights

The Apollo 11 Mission Highlights

Aldrin deploys the passive seismic experiment package. To the left of the US flag in the background is the lunar surface television camera

 Buzz Aldrin standing by the US flag planted on the surface of the moon

 Buzz Aldrin stands next to a lunar seismometer

 Buzz Aldrin's boot and footprint in lunar soil

 Buzz Aldrin’s boot print in the moon’s dust

 Crater 308 on the moon

 Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon in an image taken by Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong

 Wernher von Braun in front of the Saturn V rocket, being readied for the lunar mission, in Cape Canaveral on 10 July 1969.

 Flight controllers at the Space Centre in Houston as the landing module descends to the surface of the moon

 Members of the Apollo 11 crew wait to be picked up by a helicopter from the USS Hornet on 24 July 1969

 Neil Armstrong works near the lunar landing module

 The crew (from left): Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin

 The launch control centre watches the rocket take off on 16 July 1969

 US president Richard Nixon welcomes the Apollo 11 astronauts, confined to a mobile quarantine facility, aboard the USS Hornet

The interior of the landing module with its pilot, Buzz Aldrin, during the mission