First photo: Pack 18 Webelos Scouts Blake Yatsushiro, 10, (left) and Pono Hodges, 10, make rockets to launch on July 16.

Second photo: Pack 18 Scouts launch their handmade rockets with air power on July 16, marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 was part of a day full of launches worldwide in conjunction with the U.S. Space and Rocket Center’s record-setting launch of 5,000 model rockets in Huntsville, Ala. Pack 18 Webelos Scout Vincent Guzman’s rocket traveled the farthest during the event in Makawao, covering a distance of 210 feet. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Apollo 11’s historic mission, when the crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about 812 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii, according to NASA.