Apollo 11, for one, was a historic mission that launched on July 16th, 1969. It was the first manned mission to land on the moon and was part of the Apollo program, a series of space missions conducted by the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. The mission was a success and the crew, Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'BUZZ' Aldrin, and Michael Collins, became the first humans to walk on the moon. The term Moonshot is an 8 letter word that is used to describe the Apollo 11 mission, as it was a daring and ambitious attempt to reach the moon.