and Aldrin returned to it for the trip back to Earth.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Broadcasting and &lt;em&gt;quotes&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a id=&quot;quotes&quot; name=&quot;quotes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;Broadcast on live TV to a world-wide audience, Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Apollo 11 effectively ended the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race&quot; title=&quot;Space Race&quot;&gt;Space Race&lt;/a&gt; and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by the late U.S. President &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy&quot; title=&quot;John F. Kennedy&quot;&gt;John F. Kennedy&lt;/a&gt; in a speech before the United States Congress:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;[...] before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Technical details &lt;a id=&quot;tech-details&quot; name=&quot;tech-details&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;table align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; bordercolor=&quot;#ccc&quot; cellpadding=&quot;5&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;border-collapse:collapse;margin:10px 0 10px 15px;&quot;&gt; &lt;caption&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mission crew&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th scope=&quot;col&quot;&gt;Position&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th scope=&quot;col&quot;&gt;Astronaut&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Commander&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Neil A. Armstrong&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Command Module Pilot&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Michael Collins&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Lunar Module Pilot&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Edwin &amp;quot;Buzz&amp;quot; E. Aldrin, Jr.&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;p&gt;Launched by a &lt;strong&gt;Saturn V&lt;/strong&gt; rocket from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center&quot; title=&quot;Kennedy Space Center&quot;&gt;Kennedy Space Center&lt;/a&gt; in Merritt Island, Florida on July 16, Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA&quot; title=&quot;NASA&quot;&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s Apollo program. The Apollo spacecraft had three parts:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Command Module&lt;/strong&gt; with a cabin for the three astronauts which was the only part which landed back on Earth&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Service Module&lt;/strong&gt; which supported the Command Module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen and water&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lunar Module&lt;/strong&gt; for landing on the Moon.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt; &lt;p&gt;After being sent to the Moon by the Saturn V&amp;#39;s upper stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and travelled for three days until they