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Armstrong pilots Eagle to its landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969. When Armstrong again looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was in a boulder-strewn area just north and east of a 300-foot-diameter (91 m) crater (later determined to be West crater), so he took semi-automatic control.
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator , test pilot , and university professor.
Armstrong pilots the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle and lands on the Moon, July 20, 1969, creating Tranquility Base. Armstrong named the site at 20:17:58 UTC, approximately 18 seconds after his and Aldrin's successful landing, as he announced: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. [6]
The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap. Aldrin, 94 ...
Read CNN’s First Moon Landing Fast Facts to learn more about the Apollo 11 landing on July 20, 1969, commanded by Neil Armstrong.
Here's something you might not have known about the moon landing, courtesy of one man who lived it: Buzz Aldrin himself. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong only spent about two and a half ...
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, ... Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land the first Apollo Lunar Module on ...
On June 16th, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on a four-day, first-of-its-kind mission to the moon. The journey, which was funded by NASA through its ...