Apollo 11 returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, after eight days in space. The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean and then entered the Mobile Quarantine Facility as part of a 21-day isolation protocol. [NASA timeline details: splashdown July 24, 1969; quarantine procedures]
Landing astronauts on the moon is hard...getting them back home is harder.
www.popularmechanics.comApollo 11 was the first crewed Moon landing. On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface and said,
www.planetary.orgOn July 20, 1969, a human walked on the Moon for the first time. Relive the full journey to and from the the Moon with this timeline.
airandspace.si.eduThis week in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew successfully returned to Earth following their eight-day mission to the lunar surface.
www.nasa.gov24th July 1969: The day the Apollo 11 crew made it safely back to Earth and fulfilled the goal set by US President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, "to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth." Following Lunar Module Eagle's successful rendez-vous with the Michael Collins who had been orbiting the moon in Columbia, the crew made a television broadcast to Earth, thanking those who had worked on the project and reassuring the world waiting below that they had complete faith in their...
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