Fascinating facts you didn't know about the first Moon Landing 50 years ago

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Director Dr Charles Berry defended him, saying: “He gives the impression of being cold but I attribute this to bashfulness. When you know him, he can be a very warm person and has a great deal of humour. Almost everybody has seen Neil blush. He appears to be very sensitive.”

The Soviet Union launched an unmanned Moon probe three days before Apollo 11. Luna 15 was to retrieve samples and return them home before the Americans. The probe crash-landed on the Moon.astronauts cut short a rest period Fame changed the lives of Armstrong and Aldrin for ever. Aldrin’s wife Joan predicted: “After this is all over Buzz will still be the same person.” Jan, Armstrong’s wife said: “He’ll be the same Neil.”

To keep the crew germ-free at their final press conference in Houston 12 days before launch, the media was kept 50ft from the stage and six blowers behind the astronauts kept away the air reporters were breathing.Richard Nixon pulled out of a planned eve-of-launch dinner with the astronauts after Nasa medical experts warned the President that he might pass on germs.Nasa scientists believed a manned flight to Mars would be made by 1986.

Waiting lists for proposed commercial space flights boomed after the mission. Pan Am reported nearly 17,000 reservations.

 

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