On this day in 1969 — 53 years ago today — Apollo 11 was launched at 9:32 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the first historic journey to the surface of the moon - Frank Beacham's Journal
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NBC2 News - 2DAY IN HISTORY 🚀 🌕 On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Commander Neil Armstrong, command module pilot
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