Advertisement. They took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:32 pm on 7/16/1969, and the lunar module landed on … However, Armstrong did not set foot on the moon for more than six hours after landing. Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. EST. The Apollo 11 mission concluded exactly eight days, three hours, 18 minutes and 35 seconds after launch with a splashdown landing in the Pacific … In 1969, it proposed a plan that would see a Mars landing as early as 1981. The Apollo 11 space mission, commanded by Neil Armstrong, took three days, three hours and 49 minutes to reach the moon after launching from Earth. It took Apollo 11, that's the spaceship that carried Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969, 4 days 6 hours and 45 minutes to get to the moon. Then, in 1975, the organization put forward the Stanford torus , a space colony that … About six-and-a-half hours … On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon.