1969 - First man on the moon! Who can forget that image of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, it most probably is one of man's most historic and greatest achievement. Launched from Florida on July 16, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo program was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility and on July 21 became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 fulfilled U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon before the Soviet Union (Yes it was the cold war) by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a 1961 mission statement before the United States Congress: "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 returning him safely to the Earth." Neil Armstrong was the first to step on the surface of the moon at 0256 GMT on the 21 of July 1969. As he placed his left foot on the powered charcoal surface of the sea of tranquility, he famously declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and Aldrin spent the first few minutes taking photographs and soil samples in case the mission had to be aborted. The iconic image of Edwin Aldrin, with Armstrong and the Eagle lunar module reflected in his helmet, marked the pinnacle of the 1960s space race. Did you know? Armstrong and Aldrin used a motor-driven Hasselblad 500EL/70 (70mm film back) Data camera fitted with a Reseau plate (a means of correcting images for the effects of film distortion) and Zeiss Biogon 60mm f5.6 lens.Reference:
Wikipedia: - Man on the moon.
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