| GIANT LEAP DAY --- Friday, July 20, 2007 |
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201st day of 2007 - 164 remaining
Friday, July 20, 2007
GIANT LEAP DAY
the lunar spacecraft, the Eagle, made the first footsteps on the
surface of the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT on this day in 1969. Which foot
did Armstrong use to step on the grainy, grayish, lunar soil? His
left.
So incredible were the TV images of Armstrong and (15 minutes) later,
Buzz Aldrin, exploring the lunar surface, people around the world
to the drama of watching human beings reach something so far away so
successfully. And all were able to breathe once again.
The American flag that was deployed, along with other moon-landing
memorabilia, including a lunar rover, still sits on the moon as
abandoned space junk. While Armstrong and Aldrin cavorted on the moon,
astronaut Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 command ship,
The world again stopped -- in anticipation of the fragile lunar module
lifting off from the moon and rejoining the command ship -- reuniting
the three astronauts for a most historic trip home to planet Earth.
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