Here’s to remembering a historic achievement for all of mankind.
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Here’s to remembering a historic achievement for all of mankind.
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And that is why today, July 20th, is International Moon Day.
[https://www.un.org/en/observances/moon-day](https://www.un.org/en/observances/moon-day)
I don’t know anything about the moon landing. Did the lander return to earth? Did it have a decompression chamber?
“That continues today”. Really? Replace exploration with commercialisation and you’ll be closer to the truth.
Amazing achievement. I wish we could go back to achieving greatness and pushing the boundaries of science.
One of the few days that the world virtually ground to a halt to watch events.
The crew of the Eagle landed on the moon on July 20th, 20.17 UTC (4.17 PM, ET), but Armstrong didn’t step on the surface until July 21st, 02.51 UTC. This was also July 20th, 10.51PM Eastern Time (US). So he stood on the moon on the 21st, and the 20th, at the same time. This annoys me. NASA uses UTC in its internal documents, so why use the ET when the shift between ET (EST, EDT) and UTC is variable?
I watched it on acid. It was quite a letdown when he gave his little prepared speech. I had just hitchhiked back from the Newport Folk Festival and all the folks at home were recovering from Blue Owsley acid they had taken the night before.
Too bad about that canned speech though…
The next great frontier? All this while we destroy the oceans and lands on this planet. There’s nothing out there for us. Just boys with toys. Use the enormous amount of money being spent to save this planet.
you can follow the mission in real time at [apolloinrealtime.org](https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/)
imagine going to the moon and being the guy that doesn’t get mentioned
Eh and very likely muricans are never going again 😛
It saddens me to read that last sentence and know it’s definitely not true.
On the shoulders of giants. We can never stop looking to the stars. That’s our destiny as humans, this planet is going to not be fun to live on very soon.