The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm GMT.
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The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm GMT.
Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the moon.
The resulting emergency led to the calm announcement by the crew of, ‘Houston we’ve had a problem’.
Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space probe.
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