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<aside> 👩🏼 US SPACEFLIGHT Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight during which commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, Jr., on July 20, 1969, became the first people to land on the Moon and walk the lunar surface. Apollo 11 was the culmination of the Apollo program and a massive national commitment by the United States to beat the Soviet Union in putting people on the Moon.
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<aside> 👧🏼 US SPACEFLIGHT Apollo 11 was a big U.S. space mission where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. They were the first people to walk on the Moon! This mission was super important because the U.S. wanted to show they could do it before the Soviet Union. It was a huge goal for the country!
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<aside> 👩🏼 TAKE OFF From the time of its launch on July 16, 1969, until the return splashdown on July 24, almost every major aspect of the flight of Apollo 11 was witnessed via television by hundreds of millions of people in nearly every part of the globe. The pulse of humanity rose with the giant, Saturn V launch vehicle as it made its flawless flight from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy, Florida, before hundreds of thousands of spectators. So accurate was the translunar insertion that three of the en route trajectory corrections planned were not necessary. Aboard Apollo 11 were Armstrong, Aldrin, and command module pilot Michael Collins.
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<aside> 👧🏼 TAKE OFF From July 16 to July 24, 1969, lots of people around the world watched Apollo 11's journey on TV. They saw the huge Saturn V rocket blast off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins inside. The rocket flew perfectly, and it didn't need some of the planned adjustments along the way. Everyone held their breath as Apollo 11 headed towards the Moon.
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<aside> 👩🏼 DESCENT On the morning of July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin crawled from the command module through an interconnecting tunnel into the lunar module, Eagle. Toward the end of the 12th lunar orbit, the Apollo 11 spacecraft became two separate spacecraft: Columbia, piloted by Collins, and Eagle, occupied by Armstrong and Aldrin. By firing Eagle’s propulsion system, the two astronauts changed from their nearly circular orbit to an elliptical course whose closest approach to the Moon was only 15,000 metres. At this low point they again fired their engine, this time to undergo the powered descent initiation manoeuvre. Five times during the descent, the guidance computer triggered an alarm that its memory was full, but simulations before the mission showed that a landing could still happen despite the alarm, and thus Mission Control told the astronauts to continue the descent. At about 150 metres above the surface, Armstrong began manoeuvring the craft manually (although the main engine continued under automatic control) to avoid landing in a rock-strewn crater.
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<aside> 👧🏼 DESCENT On July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moved from their main spaceship to a smaller one called Eagle. Michael Collins stayed behind in the main ship, Columbia. As they circled the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin used Eagle's engines to get closer, just 15,000 meters away. Despite some computer warnings, they continued their landing. When they got close to landing, Armstrong took over the controls to avoid a rocky area, but the main engine helped them land safely.
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<aside> 👩🏼 TOUCHDOWN For about a minute and a half, Armstrong hovered Eagle, moving it laterally with the reaction control system until he found a clear area on which to descend. Then the contact light went on inside the cockpit, as the 172-cm (68-inch) probes dangling below Eagle’s footpads signalled contact with the ground. One second later the descent rocket engine was cut off, as the astronauts gazed down onto a sheet of lunar soil blown radially in all directions. Armstrong then radioed at 4:17 PM U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Eagle had touched down in the Sea of Tranquility, an area selected for its level and smooth terrain.
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<aside> 👧🏼 TOUCHDOWN Armstrong flew Eagle carefully for about a minute and a half, moving it sideways until he found a good spot to land. A light turned on in the cockpit when the spaceship's feet touched the ground. A moment later, the landing engines stopped, and they saw the Moon's dusty surface all around.
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<aside> 👩🏼 SPLASHDOWN Splashdown of Apollo 11 occurred in the Pacific Ocean about 1,400 km (900 miles) west of Hawaii on July 24. The astronauts were immediately placed in quarantine in a van on the recovery ship. From there they were flown to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, where they were transferred into the large, 58-room Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The quarantine lasted 21 days from the time Eagle took off from the Moon; during that period the astronauts were checked for any diseases they might have picked up on the Moon, and the lunar samples were subjected to preliminary analysis.
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<aside> 👧🏼 SPLASHDOWN After their trip, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii on July 24th. The astronauts were taken to a special van on a ship right away to stay isolated. Then, they flew to Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center. There, they stayed in a big lab called the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, which has 58 rooms! They had to stay isolated for 21 days to make sure they didn't bring any Moon germs back with them. During this time, doctors checked the astronauts and studied the Moon rocks they brought back.
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