APOLLO 11

The first man to land on the moon

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)

Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. (born January 20, 1930)

Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930)

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

A space mission will never be routine because you’re putting three humans on top of an enormous amount of high explosives.

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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

120 feet below technicians were still working on a leaking valve that replenishes the hydrogen fuel supplies for the Satern 5 rocket.

and it had sprung a leak.

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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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“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

this is real, this is the whole

enchilada. We are going for broke.

Today we land on the moon.

It was up to me to decide if we

had enough information to make

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.”

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.

Gene Keanz Apollo 11 Fight Director

260,000 miles

260,000 miles

Buzz Aldrin

“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.”

ARMSTRONG: BEAUTIFUL

ALDRIN: AIN’T THAT SOMETHING

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