Summary
NASA's own account of humanity's first Moon landing in July 1969 — from the launch of Apollo 11 through Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first steps and the crew's safe splashdown. Straight archival mission footage, a primary-source look at the event itself for a space or U.S.-history unit.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
"The Flight of Apollo 11" shows the real mission that first put people on the Moon.
- What were the biggest steps the astronauts went through, from launch to coming home?
- Why was landing on the Moon such a hard problem to solve?
- What do you think it felt like to be one of the astronauts — or one of the people watching on Earth?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: launch, orbit, lunar module, splashdown, mission.
Try it: Put four events from the mission in the order they happened, then write one sentence about why the Moon landing is still remembered today.