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Posted on March 15, 2017

NASA officials used only 12 words to list the primary objectives of Apollo 11:

1-Perform a manned lunar landing and return.

2-Perform selenological inspection and sampling.

1-Paine

4-antipode

3-Plaque on the landing gear of the Apollo 11 lunar module. The descent stage would remain on the moon, a permanent commemoration of the first visit at the landing site

2-Flight Directors John D. Hodge (left) and Eugene F. Kranz at their console in the Mission Control Room