It feels like an age ago now. In fact it is. It has been 39 years since the historic moonlanding of Apollo 11 and we are probably no closer to returning......c'mon world governments. Get your collective fingers out. Put billions of dollars/£/Yen into putting people on the Moon and then to Mars and beyond. It is money spent right here on Earth. It creates jobs, stimulates economies and is constructive, not destructive. It inspires, it delivers new technologies...it's the future of civilisation.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.Eight years later at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, that dream became a reality as the swing arms moved away and a plume of flame signaled the liftoff of the Apollo 11 carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A to the moon.
Photo Credit: NASA
The first of six successful lunar missions, Apollo 11 marked the first time humans set foot on another planetary surface.This image is of the Apollo 11 crew 'suiting up' for countdown demonstration test.
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