KSC-2014-3245

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana, at right, escorts Apollo astronauts and their families through the transfer aisle of the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, the facility in which Apollo's Saturn V rockets were processed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The visit followed a ceremony renaming Kennedy's refurbished Operations and Checkout Building for Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon. In front of the group, from left, are Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong's son Mark, Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell, Armstrong's former wife Janet, and Cabana. The ceremony was part of NASA's 45th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing. As the world watched, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, aboard the lunar module Eagle. Meanwhile, crewmate Michael Collins orbited above in the command module Columbia. For more, visit http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-honors-historic-first-moon-landing-eyes-first-mars-mission. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Date: 2014-07-21
Collection: KSC
Archive: NASA Image and Video Library
Type: photograph