apollo 11

On July 26th, 1969 History was made from Cape Kennedy space station. Three American astronauts named Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins completed a voyage to outer space to land on the moon. A feat never before accomplished by mankind. The mission lasted 8 days 3hrs and 18 min. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon he placed a sign that read “here men from planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969 a.d. With his footsteps forever imprinted on the moon. During our group discussion I was particularly intrigued to learn that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had somewhat of a conflict between them about who was going to get out of the Lunar Module (spaceship) first. In the end Neil gets out first after Buzz takes the matter to their boss who made the final decision. I also learned that the astronauts Neil and buzz were out of the spacecraft for 2 and a half hours. Between the two of them they collected 47 and a half pounds of lunar material (moon rocks) that were brought back to earth for examination.
We also talked about the logo or insignia for the crew. Later to find out that the logo was designed by Michael Collins one of the astronauts. He wanted a symbol for peaceful lunar landing by the United States. We found that he chose an eagle as the symbol and put an olive branch in its beak, with the earth in the back ground while the eagle was landing on the moon. ‘The eagle has landed” and “one small step for man one giant leap for mankind” are sayings that forever changed the world in my opinion. If that day never happened we wouldn’t be where we are today in space exploration. It amazes me that some people doubt the fact that the U.S. really landed on the moon. This question was brought to our attention during our group discussion. However, if we could go to the moon in 1969 why not over 40 years later? Plus I find it hard to believe that a feat thought to be impossible back then could be a hoax.
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