Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world

, including the simultaneous launch of 5,000 model rockets outside the installation in Huntsville, Alabama, where the behemoth Saturn V moon rockets were born. Apollo 11K and Saturn 5K runs are “go” at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

At the time, the Soviets were beating America at every turn in the space race, with the first satellite, Sputnik, the first spaceman, Yuri Gagarin, and the first lunar probes. Cape Canaveral’s Bill Waldron remembers working “seven days a week, 12 hours a day, six months at a clip” on the lunar modules.

The following message will be displayed to users with unsupported browsers: Your browser does not support theHTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later. At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the Saturn V roared off Pad 39A, its astronauts hurtling toward their destination and destiny 240,000 miles away. The command module, Columbia, and the attached lunar module, Eagle, reached the moon three days later. The next day, July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface in the lunar module.

Then a boulder-strewn crater the size of a football field appeared at the target landing site, and Armstrong had to keep flying, looking for somewhere safe to put down. Aldrin called out the distance to the surface — 75 feet, 40 feet, 30 feet — asFinally came word from Armstrong: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”“You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again,” Mission Control’s Charlie Duke radioed back.

We had 3 TV stations, and it monopolized all 3. We didn't have much of a choice, except read, which luckily for me as a 10 year old, I loved to do.

I’m just here for conspiracy theory comments. Apolo11 MoonLanding

With the legalization of marijuana, the UFO sightings have increase 80%......🤣

Mars here we come!

WHICH WAS FILMED ENTIRELY IN A STUDIO

As a young girl watching this, I remember it as one of the proudest days of my life. I was and am proud to be an American, and nothing the MSM can twist about it will ever change that.

And 50 years later, media is trying to ruin that.

Is THAT why “we” are expending so many finite resources to return to the moon amid war, famine, poverty, a grotesque WealthGap and a RefugeeCrisis that is several times larger than after WWII?

Racist !

made in hollywoood

Agree? Do you know how many believe it was faked? Filmed in a studio. In this country, we agree on nothing.

Except for the Exhibit at The Enquirer Magazine Museum that still maintains it was an elaborate hoax and has several noteworthy reasons why.

And memorized watching Buzz thump a moon landing conspiracy theorist

Russia had first man in space and first satellites. Usa was getting it's ass kicked in space technology. Until USA stole Russia rockets ,and parts and their engineers

Can we all agree then TrumpIsARacist? Yes?

I am sure the Soviet Union disagreed. Plus the whole, the moon landing was faked, conspiracy theory.

how many of you have had the braindead claim its a hollywood production These are the same folks that drive cars into crowds

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