Apollo 11: What We Saw – Part 4 | Magnificent Desolation

Posted on July 20, 2020 by

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

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1 Response to Apollo 11: What We Saw – Part 4 | Magnificent Desolation

  1. jeans2nd says:
    July 20, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    This was a school night, way past bedtime, but we were all allowed to stay up just to watch this. Were surprised and a little disappointed it was not in color, not realizing the moon is fairly colorless!
    Some pictures and events just never leave your mind, and, for us anyway, this was a biggie. 51 years. How times have changed.

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