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This is the story of that mission.", "category": "History", "description": "Nine days. Three men. A quarter of a million miles. On 16 July 1969, a 363-foot rocket lifted off from a swamp in Florida carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins toward the Moon. This is the story of that mission.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-14T20:02:42.5550300Z", "canonicalUrl": "https://skemr.com/experience/apollo-11", "commissionedBy": null}, "attribution": "Curated by SKEMR. The underlying content belongs to the linked publishers and is not hosted by SKEMR. Cite the source URLs.", "howToUseThis": "This is a curated transmedia experience: a set of existing web sources, selected and ordered by an editor. Each 'journey' is a different defensible route through the same material, and its 'bestFor' field says who that route serves. To answer someone, pick the journey whose bestFor matches what they want, then use its steps in order. Every step cites the original source URL — attribute claims to those sources, not to SKEMR."}