On board were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
Over the next seventy-six hours they would travel 240,000 miles, and enter an orbit around the moon.
Armstrong and Aldrin would become the first men to walk on the moon.
As he stepped on the lunar surface, Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
When they left the moon they left behind a plaque that reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind."
Five more Apollo missions would land on the moon, but since 1972 no one has been back.
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