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I was eight years of age when Neill Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that most famous of steps and said the immortal words “One small step for man, one Giant leap for mankind”. I can’t say as I remember where I was but I don’t imagine that I saw it live for I was probably tucked up in bed. I do remember seeing it though, probably in news programs after the event.
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The moon landing is an epic part of 20th Century history. The images and the quote iconic. Western Society had thumped the Soviets in the space race thouroughly and science fact had caught up with science fiction. Move over Flash Gordon For some real life astronauts.
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At the time I dont think I understood the buzz of excitment surrounding the event. It is strange to think that you are alive at a momentous moment in the history of humankind but it really means nothing to you. I could not understand the big deal really and wondered would the man in the moon mind the intrusion.
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They were asking on a radio program was space travel obsolete and were people no longer interested? i dont think so. The idea of space travel and exploration has always held a particular fascination for people and some of the best stories I have ever read have been sci/fi. I am thinking of people like Mary Shelly, H.G Wells, Jules Verne and George Orwell. Then more recent people like Douglas Adams and Arthur C Clarke. The next project will be a manned flight to Mars and science fact will once more catch up with science fiction. Man as a species is too imaginative to remain grounded
I was eight years of age when Neill Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took that most famous of steps and said the immortal words “One small step for man, one Giant leap for mankind”. I can’t say as I remember where I was but I don’t imagine that I saw it live for I was probably tucked up in bed. I do remember seeing it though, probably in news programs after the event.
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The moon landing is an epic part of 20th Century history. The images and the quote iconic. Western Society had thumped the Soviets in the space race thouroughly and science fact had caught up with science fiction. Move over Flash Gordon For some real life astronauts.
Image via Wikipedia
At the time I dont think I understood the buzz of excitment surrounding the event. It is strange to think that you are alive at a momentous moment in the history of humankind but it really means nothing to you. I could not understand the big deal really and wondered would the man in the moon mind the intrusion.
Image via Wikipedia
They were asking on a radio program was space travel obsolete and were people no longer interested? i dont think so. The idea of space travel and exploration has always held a particular fascination for people and some of the best stories I have ever read have been sci/fi. I am thinking of people like Mary Shelly, H.G Wells, Jules Verne and George Orwell. Then more recent people like Douglas Adams and Arthur C Clarke. The next project will be a manned flight to Mars and science fact will once more catch up with science fiction. Man as a species is too imaginative to remain grounded
NASA’s Apollo 11, which was crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was launched on its four day journey to the Moon from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy by a Saturn V launch vehicle on 16th July 1969. On arrival in lunar orbit Collins remained in the command module Columbia whilst Armstrong and Aldrin transferred to the lunar module Eagle and descended to the surface of the Moon where they landed at 20:17:39 GMT on 20th July (see NASA’s Apollo 11 Timeline). Armstrong and Aldrin both walked on the surface of the Moon while Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Another five Apollo missions, namely 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 successfully followed Apollo 11 to the Moon with two astronauts on the lunar surface on each occasion meaning that during the entire Apollo programme 12 men walked on the Moon.
James Lovell and Fred Haise should have walked on the Moon during Apollo 13 but their lunar landing was aborted after a malfunction. As Lovell had previously been in lunar orbit on Apollo 8 he is the only person to have been to the Moon twice without landing on it.
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NASA’s Apollo 11, which was crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was launched on its four day journey to the Moon from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy by a Saturn V launch vehicle on 16th July 1969. On arrival in lunar orbit Collins remained in the command module Columbia whilst Armstrong and Aldrin transferred to the lunar module Eagle and descended to the surface of the Moon where they landed at 20:17:39 GMT on 20th July (see NASA’s Apollo 11 Timeline). Armstrong and Aldrin both walked on the surface of the Moon while Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Another five Apollo missions, namely 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 successfully followed Apollo 11 to the Moon with two astronauts on the lunar surface on each occasion meaning that during the entire Apollo programme 12 men walked on the Moon.
James Lovell and Fred Haise should have walked on the Moon during Apollo 13 but their lunar landing was aborted after a malfunction. As Lovell had previously been in lunar orbit on Apollo 8 he is the only person to have been to the Moon twice without landing on it.
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