Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, and the third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned to it just under a day later for the trip back to Earth. This unique film is an historical record of the events leading up to and including the mission. It charts the development of rocket propulsion and the Apollo program and gives an insight into social and cultural events of the time.