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A BIG Moment for Apollo 11

Well-wishers in Hawaii welcomed the astronauts on July 26, 1969, after they landed on the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific, and traveled by aircraft carrier to Pearl Harbor.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A BIG Moment for Apollo 11.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Apollo 11 recovery photographs courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published July 24, 2025
Data acquired March 20, 2025

Sources:: Landsat 9 > OLI-2; Photograph