[CaptainCrunch]

I know its been talked about but it really does deserve its own thread. In 1969 Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr, strapped into the command capsule of the Apollo 11 on top of the massive Saturn V rocket and at 9:32 AM ET were launched into orbit.


It took 12 minutes for the Apollo 11 to achieve earths orbit 100 miles, after 1 1/2 orbits of earth the Apollo was pushed out of orbit onto its proper trajectory and Michael Collins performed the extraction and docking of the Command Module with the lunar module. Their journey would begin and take til July 19th to reach orbit of the moon.


More then 1 million people gathered at road sides and beaches to watch and another 25 million huddled around their televisions to watch.