Apollo 11 crew visit the White House
President Barack Obama meets with Apollo 11 representatives including Michael Collins (L) and Buzz Aldrin (2nd L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on the 45th anniversary of the first mission to land on the moon, July 22, 2014. Neil Armstrong, the third member of the Apollo 11 crew and first man to walk on the moon, died in 2012 at the age of 82.
Apollo 11 astronauts visit the White House
President Barack Obama meets with Apollo 11 representatives including Michael Collins (L) and Buzz Aldrin (2nd L) on the 45th anniversary of the first mission to land on the moon, on July 22, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. At second right is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Apollo 11 astronauts visit the White House
President Barack Obama (R) meets with surviving members of Apollo 11, Astronauts Michael Collins (L) and Buzz Aldrin (C) during a visit in the Oval Office at the White House, July 22, 2014, in Washington, DC.
Apollo 11 astronauts visit the White House
On the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Barack Obama meets with Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin, center, and Michael Collins, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 22, 2014.
Apollo 11 training
The Apollo 11 crew conducting a crew compartment fit and functional check, of the equipment and storage locations, in their command module. Peering from the hatch are from left, Neil Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot. Armstrong and Aldrin later conducted a similar check aboard the lunar module, which carried them down to the lunar surface on July 20, 1969.
Buzz Aldrin on the moon
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules "Columbia" in lunar orbit.
Apollo 11 Lunar Module lifts off the moon
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit. This view is looking west with the earth rising above the lunar horizon. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command/Service Module in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the Moon. The Lunar Module is approaching from below. The mare area in the background is Smyth's Sea. At right center is International Astronomical Union crater no. 189.
President Nixon greets the Apollo 11 astronauts
Then-President Richard M. Nixon was in the central Pacific recovery area to welcome the Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, prime recovery ship for the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Already confined to the Mobile Quarantine Facility are, from left: Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 splashed down at 11:49 a.m. (CDT), July 24, 1969, about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and only 12 nautical miles from the U.S.S. Hornet. The three crew men remained in the MQF until they arrive at the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
Apollo 11 astronauts visit the White House
Then-President George W. Bush (2nd L) meets with Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins (L) Neil Armstrong (2nd R) and Buzz Aldrin (R) in the Oval Office at the White House, July 21, 2004 in Washington, DC. The astronauts were celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 11 astronauts visit the White House
Then-President Bill Clinton (C) is presented a rock from the moon by the original crew of Apollo 11, from left: Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and his wife Carol Armstrong, Lois Aldrin and Buzz Aldrin in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, July 20, 1999. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were in Washington to receive the Samuel P. Langley Medal from Then-Vice President Al Gore at the National Air and Space Museum on the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew's moon landing.