Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program, a program which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon.
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon . Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island , Florida , on July 16 , and was the fifth manned mission of NASA 's Apollo program . The Apollo program , also known as Project Apollo , was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972 .