LA_MERC_Onji
July 20th, 2004, 12:12 PM
I saw this posted somewhere and I thought it was a good writeup, here ya go:
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Apollo 11 35th Anniversary
35 years ago on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon, marking the first time a (hu)man walked and lived on another planetary body.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off aboard their Saturn V rocket at 9:32AM EDT on July 16, 1969 ( Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62282main_countdown_launch.wav )
3 days later they were in lunar orbit and one day after that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon at 4:18 EDT with only 30 seconds of fuel left on the lander, Armstrong's heart rate was 150 during the landing! ( Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62283main_landing.wav )
At 10:56 EDT Armstrong is ready to be the first person to walk on another world. This event was televised and ~ half a billion people watched Armstrong make his historic first step onto the moon (Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62284main_onesmall2.wav )
They have done it, they have successfully accomplished what JFK had asked for in 1961 with his speech that the "nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." ( Video: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/jfk_speech.html )
Links: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11/index.html
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Apollo 11 35th Anniversary
35 years ago on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon, marking the first time a (hu)man walked and lived on another planetary body.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off aboard their Saturn V rocket at 9:32AM EDT on July 16, 1969 ( Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62282main_countdown_launch.wav )
3 days later they were in lunar orbit and one day after that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon at 4:18 EDT with only 30 seconds of fuel left on the lander, Armstrong's heart rate was 150 during the landing! ( Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62283main_landing.wav )
At 10:56 EDT Armstrong is ready to be the first person to walk on another world. This event was televised and ~ half a billion people watched Armstrong make his historic first step onto the moon (Audio: http://www.nasa.gov/62284main_onesmall2.wav )
They have done it, they have successfully accomplished what JFK had asked for in 1961 with his speech that the "nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." ( Video: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/jfk_speech.html )
Links: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11/index.html