Three NASA astronauts successfully carried out a mission to the Moon and back in the summer of 1969. Just eight years after President John F Kennedy instructed America to land a human on the Moon, NASA accomplished the mission. On July 16, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Then on July 20, 1969, Commander Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Aldrin descended to the Moon.