The U.S.Moon mission came on July 16,1969, when Armstrong, along with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, climbed into Apollo 11's command module called Columbia atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket and blasted off.

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It was the Saturn V rocket that enabled the US to send astronauts to the Moon.

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He was a Fulbright and his father Chauncey helped design the Saturn V rocket with Werner Von Braun.

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If we had not thrown away the Saturn v rocket there could have been permanent lunar bases on the moon.

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