Apollo 11 moon landing

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This Las Vegas newspaper captures the excitement as two American astronauts explore the moon's surface on July 20. Earlier in the day, President Richard Nixon had led the nation in prayer for a successful moon landing.

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It's 50 years since the first ever manned landing on the Moon - what was involved?

Humans walked on the moon on July 20, 1969.

The highlight of the last human spaceflight to the Moon occurred on 11 Dec. 1972, with the lunar landing of Apollo 17. After a four-day journey to the Moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt descended to the lunar surface while crewmate Ronald Evans remained in lunar orbit. Schmitt, the only professional geologist to walk on the Moon, and Cernan landed in the Taurus-Littrow highlands region, an area that offered a unique combination of old and young geologic material. Credit…

💬 0 🔁 21 ❤️ 66 · Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Moon, July 20, 1969. Painted by Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean in 1985.

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#OnThisDay in 1969, Apollo 11's lunar module, Eagle, landed on the moon, forever imprinting its mark on human history. A giant leap for mankind! 🚀🌕 #Apollo11 #MoonLanding #SpaceExploration #HumanAchievement

This fantastic — or perhaps fantastical — image of a space shuttle launching through the clouds has been getting a lot of comments on the social media circuits. But is it real? No, it is a composite of two different images put together by photographer Richard Silvera. “The picture of the sky and clouds was … Continue reading "Incredible Space Shuttle Picture: Is it Real?"

"Eagle" on the moon

Apollo landing sites: First Landing

Neil Alden Armstrong / By Louis S. Glanzman / Acrylic and casein on Masonite, 1969 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution This blog post originally appeared July 20, 2016 Neil Armstrong’s words from July 20, 1969, are among the most iconic in a century full of memorable quotations: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Most people are familiar

For all the celebrations surrounding the first manned lunar landing of Apollo 11 1969 what is forgotten today is just how close they and the other Apollo missions flew to the edge of disaster. #Apollo11 #NeilArmstrong

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon—and Buzz Aldrin became the first one to pee on it.

Anyone who's spent time on the internet knows that some folks doubt the veracity of the moon landing, but the evidence is all around us.