50 years ago, Apollo 11 brought the world together and inspired us to achieve, explore, and discover for generations to come. Here, people are brought together July 16, 2019, to celebrate the first time humans walked on the Moon as a full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket is projected onto the east face of the Washington Monument 50 years to the day after astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin launched on Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Tuesday, July 16, 1969.
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