1 billion people watched from 251,000 miles away as Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.
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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 left boot that Armstrong wore during the moon landing has become a subject of a lot of interest among collectors.
The lack of an Apollo 11 flag is consistent with Aldrin’s memory of the famous mission. The photos of the landing were broadcast to 600 million individuals on Earth, even if a good number of technical difficulties were experienced.
As the video above recalls, the two men, who along with command module pilot Michael Collins made up the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, landed in the Sea of Tranquillity in their Eagle lunar module at 2.56am BST.
Moon Landing – Apollo 11 ” OK, i´m going to step off the LEM (Lunar Module) now. We came in peace for all mankind.
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Pluto may have gotten all the press last week, but tomorrow marks the 46th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin setting foot on the moon back in 1969. The majority reentered as expected, though some circled the planet for years before falling back to Earth. Aldrin handed Armstrong a white bag known as a “jettison bag,” or “jett bag” for short, full of things the astronauts no longer needed-the banal detritus of spaceflight, from food wrappers to containers of human waste.
