On July 16, 1969 Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin boarded a Lunar Modular Spacecraft and began the Apollo 11 mission. The astronauts launched from Cape Kennedy ready to take the challenge John F. Kennedy had issued before for America to land on the moon and return to earth. This mission was noted as the first mission that took man to the moon. Apollo 11 was the first planned landing on the moon and the last time for this specific flight of a “free- return” trajectory. The astronauts were in charge of many tasks once on the moon. They would be walking on the moon, taking samples of lunar objects, placing televising material in order to transmit back to earth their tasks as well
