Armstrong dropped the jett bag to the surface, and later kicked it under the lunar module to get it out of the way.
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An estimated 600 million people worldwide watched on TV as American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the surface of the Moon on this day in 1969. The inscription read: Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. On July 24th they landed on the pacific ocean and completed the mission.
With completion of the flight of Apollo 11, the United States of America fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s 25 May 1961 call to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the decade of the 1960’s was out.
The lack of an Apollo 11 flag is consistent with Aldrin’s memory of the famous mission. “These fearless men, Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery”.
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Next Monday, 46 years later, the world will again celebrate and remember that brilliant moment in humankind history. In the near future, Aerospace company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation based in California) and aircraft maker Boeing, will launch space craft carrying NASA astronauts to the global Space Station. The suit was created for short-term use so the materials are expected to break down over time. The target is to raise $500,000 on popular crowdsourcing platform, Kickstarter, to conserve the spacesuit in a specially created climate-controlled display case and also digitize the spacesuit with 3D scanning.
