Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched aboard Apollo 11 from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1969 on a mission to land on the moon. They launched aboard the massive Saturn V rocket, which had three stages to propel them out of Earth's orbit and onto the lunar surface. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module on the Sea of Tranquility while Michael Collins orbited above in the command module. Armstrong uttered his famous words upon becoming the first person to set foot on the moon's surface, saying "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

1. Apollo 11
Hello, I’m going to talk about the first trip to the moon, with the mission Apollo 11. The first trip to the
moon was in 1969. It was possible thanks to; Neil Armstrong, who was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in
2012 also in Ohio, United States; Buzz Aldrin, who was born in 1930 in New Jersey, United States; and
Michael Collins, who was born in 1930, in Rome, Italy.
They took off from the KSC (Kennedy Space Centre), in Florida, Cape Canaveral, one of the most
important centres of NASA.
They arrived to the moon in the mission Apollo 11, which was the sixth manned trip of the Apollo
program and the first trip that land on the moon.
The rocket that helped them to travel to the moon was the Saturn V, the biggest rocket at the moment.
It transported a lot of litres of propergol, the fuel of the rocket, and it had three stages:
• First stage.It was the biggest one. It had only propergol tanks and 5 big engines.It was use to
beat the gravity force.
•Second stage.It was bigger than the third one but smaller than the first one. It also had only
propergol tanks and one big engine. It was used to put in orbit the rocket, because to go to the moon you
need thrust from the orbit of the Earth.
• Third stage. That contains 4 main modules (in order): LEM (Lunar Excursion Module), service
module, command module and launch escape module. The LEM was the module that landed on the
moon; it had two main parts, the legs, which remained on the moon and the capsule that met with the
command module (this was in orbit around the moon with the service module).
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were landing on the moon with the LEM, Michael Collins was in
orbit around the moon inside the service and command module.
The launch escape module was a little rocket that was used to propel the service module (in this module
went the astronauts)in case that there was an accident in the rocket.
In total, the rocket was 110 metres height, it had got a diameter of 10 metres and its weight was about
2900 tonnes.
Of the entire rocket, only came back the command module that was 3.2 metres.
When Neil Armstrong was going down the stairs of the LEM he said a very popular sentence:
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
That sentence was wrong because when he said for man, he refer for one man, not in general.

2. They landed on the Sea of Tranquility. This is not a sea because in the moon there isn’t any water, it’s a
big crater.