{"id":220548,"date":"2014-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/launch-of-apollo-11"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:00:00","slug":"launch-of-apollo-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220548","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Apollo 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Onboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the United States&#8217; first lunar landing mission. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module &#8220;Eagle&#8221; to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules &#8220;Columbia&#8221; in lunar orbit.<br \/>\n> Apollo 11 and NASA&#8217;s Next Giant Leap<br \/>\nPhoto Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Onboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the United States&#8217; first lunar landing mission. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module &#8220;Eagle&#8221; to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules &#8220;Columbia&#8221; in lunar orbit.<br \/>\n&gt; Apollo 11 and NASA&#8217;s Next Giant Leap<br \/>\nPhoto Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}