APOLLO 11
The first man to land on the moon
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930)
Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. (born January 20, 1930)
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)
I can’t recall getting all that much sleep knowing what was going to be happening the next day. There was enough adrenalin floating around in the crew quarters for several missions to the moon. Buzz Aldrin
Mission Control Huston Texas
A space mission will never be routine because you’re putting three humans on top of an enormous amount of high explosives. Gene Keanz Apollo 11 Fight Director
The satin V was the heaviest most powerful rocket ever built. It was packed with a million tones of highly explosive fuel
and it had sprung a leak. 120 feet below technicians were still working on a leaking valve that replenishes the hydrogen fuel supplies for the Satern 5 rocket.
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I believe that this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and retuning him safely to the earth.
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All the com puters at mission control had more o r less the power of one of todays lapto ps.
Z PARTICLES
“The controllers are normally a very chatty group. They always have some kind of a wise crack, some kind of a joke. On this day there was a degree of seriousness that I hadn’t seen before or hadn’t seen in training. You finally realise
It was up to me to decide if we
this is real, this is the whole
had enough information to make
enchilada. We are going for broke. Today we land on the moon.
As soon as the spacecraft came around from behind the moon. We had tracking data that indicated that we were not on the proper trajectory. My guidance officer Steve bell calls out that he was about half way to the abort limit. We seem to be out in radio velocity. As soon as he said half way to our abort limit our communications were all blown. We couldn’t communicate with the lunar module.
the ‘go no go’ and continue the descent to the moon. Five minutes prior to powered decent I had my controllers go though a ‘go no go’ and immediately lost data again. So I added the words, give me your ‘go no go’ based on the last valid frame of data that you saw.” Gene Keanz Apollo 11 Fight Director
260,000 miles
ARMSTRONG: BEAUTIFUL
ALDRIN: AIN’T THAT SOMETHING
“Standing under lunar gravity with the very soft, maybe an inch or so of lunar dust. There is not much of a feeling that’s translated at all form stepping on different portions of the surface its quite smooth and its easy to push off with your feet. You can look out at the horizon and see very clearly because of no atmosphere or haze or anything, you can see objects very very clearly.” Buzz Aldrin
ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN......
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MAN KIND
“I don’t look back and pat myself on the back for being part of a real risky manure. I think we made some bold decisions, yeah we had some things that could have gone wrong, and some did go wrong. But we also had an inspired group of people pioneering, and I marvel at the very close conditions that resulted in me still being alive, to go to the moon and be here today.� Buzz Aldrin
Designed by Joe Lewis-Collins