... three brave men strapped themselves to the top of a Saturn V rocket weighing 2,923,387 kg, most of it highly explosive fuel, and blasted off from Earth to become the first human beings to walk on another celestial body. On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins began the journey that would ultimately become one giant leap for mankind.
The Apollo 11 mission was supported by over 400,000 support staff from all around the world, and achieved their goal four days later, on July 20, 1969. For their achievements, the Apollo 11 astronauts would later become the only living persons to have Lunar craters on the near side of the Moon (the side visible from Earth) named after them.
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