And when Armstrong and Aldrin were working on the moon, astronaut Michael Collins orbited in their command module.
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On this day, Neil Armstrong became the first man ever to set foot on the moon. Like a proper test pilot, he took over from the computers and put the Eagle down safely, with 25 seconds’. “It is hard to imagine anything more exciting”, said Allan Needell of the Smithsonian’s Space History Department, in a blog post.
Neil Armstrong’s initial step on the celestial body overhead is an essential and significant triumph that in fact skill had manufactured in the twentieth century.
Each of the new minerals arrived at their names in different ways.
The event ended the space race and meet President Kennedy’s deadline of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The images of the moon landing were broadcasted to at least 600 million people on Earth, despite some technical and weather difficulties.
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The pair then joined the other member of of the Apollo 11 crew, Micheal Collins, for the trip back to Earth. Armstrong and his partner Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin joined him to conduct experiments, take photos, plant the USA flag, and collect samples on the moon’s “sea of tranquility”. The crew launched July 16, 1969, landing on the lunar surface on July 20 and crashing into the Pacific Ocean on July 24. “Bringing Armstrong’s spacesuit back not only helps honour the accomplishments of a generation who brought us from Earth to the Moon in less than nine years, it also inspires the next generation of bold space explorers”.
