#apollo11

Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the Moon at 02:56 UTC (10:56PM EDT) July 21, 1969. #Apollo11

Fifty-seven years ago tonight. 400,000 people worked for a decade to put two sets of bootprints somewhere other than here... and the world was never the same. 'You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”' -- Edgar Mitchell, LM pilot, Apollo 14, quoted in People (magazine), 8 Apr 1974. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzeFNEv150 #space #Apollo11 #moon #MoonLanding #OverviewEffect

56 years ago, July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 lunar landing - Humanity's first serious and competent attempt to land a crew on the #Moon succeeded. And the crew returned safely. Article at Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum: https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/apollo-11-moon-landing #Apollo11 #NASA #space #history

57 years ago today, July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 lunar landing, humanity's first serious attempt to land people on the #Moon succeeded. First words spoken from the lunar surface are arguably "contact light", but usually celebrated with the line that followed, "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-11/ #Apollo11 #NASA #space #history

On this day in 1969 at 20:17 UTC the lunar module "Eagle" landed on the moon! https://www.un.org/en/observances/moon-day #MoonDay #Apollo11

#OnThisDay #Apollo11,spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon, was launched (1969). The first nuclear device ever detonated (1945). Birth Anniversary of Norwegian #Explorer Roald Amundsen (1872) - first to reach the South Pole. Today is World #SnakeDay. https://knowledgezone.co.in/news