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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In the annals of space flight there has been nothing – so far – more cool or terrifying than Neil Armstrong’s landing on the Moon. It was created by combing the first syllables from the names of all three Apollo astronauts – Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to reach the moon on July 20, 1969. The mission’s third member, air force Lt. Col. Michael Collins stayed behind on the Columbia, orbiting the moon and waiting for his partners to board again for the journey home. They also left a plaque that read “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon – July 1969 A.D”. Apollo 11 orbited the Earth and tested the mechanisms necessary to deliver a successful moon landing.
Listen to the original audio transmission of the very first moon landing via NASA. 9They returned to Earth on the 24 day of July taking a splash on the Pacific Ocean.
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The museum aims to raise $500,000 on the Kickstarter online crowdfunding platform to conserve the spacesuit, build a climate-controlled display case and digitize the spacesuit with 3D scanning. That thankfully didn’t happen 46 years ago today, but in 1969 President Richard Nixon and his staff had to prepare to that grim possibility, which is why they had a speech written for if Armstrong and Aldrin had been stranded in outer space. It was on national television and NASA has remastered the recording and it can be found on the internet.
