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Today is 20th July, the anniversary of the first Luna landing by Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon at 03:15GMT on 21st July 1969.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin spent a total of 21 hours on the Moon, two-and-a-half of them outside the landing module.
After re-joining the Columbia mothership the astronauts - including Collins - left the moon's orbit on 22 July and returned to Earth on 24 July.
The three men spent the next 21 days in quarantine at an American military base - a procedure dropped in subsequent missions since no alien organisms were found.
The Moon landing marked the pinnacle of the space race and American investment in the space programme declined accordingly.
A further 10 astronauts travelled to the moon in another six missions with the final manned lunar landing, Apollo 17, completed in December 1972.
I've found a page about Apollo 11 on the National Space Science Data Centre's web site. Strangely, there's a link at the top of the page which refers to the "30th" anniversary. I thought that was 5 years ago. Come on NASA. Catch up!
Here's quite a nice picture of a space shuttle on the launch pad.
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Today is 20th July, the anniversary of the first Luna landing by Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon at 03:15GMT on 21st July 1969.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin spent a total of 21 hours on the Moon, two-and-a-half of them outside the landing module.
After re-joining the Columbia mothership the astronauts - including Collins - left the moon's orbit on 22 July and returned to Earth on 24 July.
The three men spent the next 21 days in quarantine at an American military base - a procedure dropped in subsequent missions since no alien organisms were found.
The Moon landing marked the pinnacle of the space race and American investment in the space programme declined accordingly.
A further 10 astronauts travelled to the moon in another six missions with the final manned lunar landing, Apollo 17, completed in December 1972.
I've found a page about Apollo 11 on the National Space Science Data Centre's web site. Strangely, there's a link at the top of the page which refers to the "30th" anniversary. I thought that was 5 years ago. Come on NASA. Catch up!
Here's quite a nice picture of a space shuttle on the launch pad.
