July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns home

Today in 1969, the launch of Apollo 9 and the first manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit.

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Scott Carpenter launched atop an Atlas rocket to become the second American to orbit the Earth today in 1962, flying for 4 hours and 39 minutes aboard Aurora 7 while making three revolutions of the globe.