On This Day In Alabama History: Apollo 11 Lands On Moon With Alabama Boost

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

In a voyage that began with rockets developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, man landed on the moon. The Saturn V booster rockets, which lifted Apollo 11 out of Earth’s orbit, were developed throughout the 1960s by a team led by Wernher von Braun, the first director of Marshall. The landing by the Apollo 11 crew, Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins, fulfilled a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth before the end of the decade.

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