Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, two names every school-going child learns after knowing Space. The first is the first person to set foot on the moon and the second, the second. Today is July 20, 2021, and it is the 52nd year of NASAof Apollo 11 The mission to land these two American astronauts on the Moon in 1969.
Ever since the USSR became the first country to put a man in space, the US wanted to overtake its biggest rival in terms of space. A little more than eight years later, they not only managed to send astronauts into space, but also landed two of them on the Moon.
Apollo Neil Armstrong commanded 11 missions with the pilot Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins, who never had to set foot on the moon because his job was to keep the command module Colombia In orbit when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon, the lunar module secured inside Eagle. The space module had so far been carried into space with the help of the Saturn V rocket, a three-stage 363-foot rocket with 7.5 million pounds of thrust.
When there was only 30 seconds of fuel left
According to NASA, when Armstrong lowered the lunar module to the surface of the Moon, there was only 30 seconds of fuel left. Then he radioed: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed.” At that time there was glee in Mission Control. According to Armstrong, landing on the Moon was his biggest concern; He added: “The unknowns were massive,” and “there were just a thousand things to worry about.” It took them three days after their launch from Earth to get their spacecraft into lunar orbit.
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took the giant leap for mankind
According to NASA, more than half a billion people were watching the moon landing on TV. Armstrong was the first person to land on the surface of the Moon. After doing so, he uttered the famous words: “It is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Aldrin was next to descend from the eagle, commenting on the environment he found himself in as “the splendid desolation”. Both took photos and samples on the satellite for about two and a half hours. Before joining Collins, who was controlling the main module, he left behind the flag of the United States, a patch honoring the fallen Apollo 1 crew, and a plaque on one of the eagle’s legs, In which it was written, “Here the people of planet Earth first set foot on the moon. July 1969 AD. We all came in peace for mankind.” The crew landed in the Pacific Ocean on 24 July and returned to Earth, after which they were picked up by the USS Hornet.
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