Armstrong and Aldrin explored their Sea of Tranquility landing site for about two and a half hours.
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For several weeks during the summers of 1969 newspapers were flooded with stories about Apollo 11 and its three astronauts naming Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
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.
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. The images of the moon landing were broadcasted to at least 600 million people on Earth, despite some technical and weather difficulties.
Following a successful lunar lift-off, Armstrong and Aldrin rejoined Collins in lunar orbit.
Moon Landing – Apollo 11 ” OK, i´m going to step off the LEM (Lunar Module) now.
The line “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” made famous by Armstrong as he steps out of the Apollo 11 spacecraft still echoes as historic as it was then, until today. This container had two drawings of the Earth’s western and eastern hemispheres, the signatures of the astronauts as well as President Nixon, and an inscription. The inscription read: Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. “We came in peace for all mankind”, according to NASA. It was on July 24 they splashed down on the Pacific Ocean having finished their mission.
He arranged for some of them to be cancelled on launch day at Kennedy Space Center and then carried all of them in his T-38 back to Houston.
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On Monday, exactly 46 ago, humanity will again celebrate that golden moment in man’s history.
