| UPDATED: 18:46, Thu, Feb 11, 2021 Link copied Sign up for FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969, fulfilling President John F Kennedy’s goal of landing man on the Moon by the end of the Sixties. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre four days earlier. It was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo programme. It had three parts – a command module (CM) with a cabin for the three astronauts, a service module (SM), which supported the command module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water, and a lunar module (LM) that was used to touch down on the Moon.