International Moon Day
When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, it was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, so International Moon Day celebrates not only the historic landing on the moon on July 20, 1969 but this day also reminds us of the hard work that went into launching the space programme, on Moon Day. Internationally, we remember both the strange and profound moments in the space race that ended with Americans being the first to plant their flag on the moon, a day celebrated on July 20 every year.
International Moon Day date
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first people in history to land on the moon on July 20, 1969. The major Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the national goal of sending it.
The idea of a mission to send astronauts to the moon began when President Kennedy pleaded in a special joint session of Congress in 1961, saying, "I believe that this nation must 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."
At the time of Kennedy's proposal, the United States was still confronted with the Soviet Union in the progress of space exploration and since it was during the Cold War period, the proposal was welcomed and the first unmanned Apollo mission was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA five years later. From the effort and hard work of the international team of engineers and scientists, the first mission was a testing phase of the structural flexibility of the space launch vehicle.
At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the whole world witnessed the liftoff of Apollo 11 from the Kennedy Space Center with three astronauts on board. Neil Armstrong was the mission commander. The spacecraft entered lunar orbit. Three days later, on July 19, the lunar module Eagle pulled out of The main command unit the next day, Piloted by Armstrong and Aldrin, when the Eagle touched down on the lunar surface, Armstrong sent his historic message to Mission Control in Houston, Texas: “Eagle has landed.”
At 10:39 p.m., Armstrong exited the lunar module and made his way down its ladder, his progress recorded by a television camera attached to the module that transmitted signals to Earth, where the world watched anxiously.
At 10:56 p.m., Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface and spoke his famous words: "This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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