“The Eagle Has Landed”
Note: I have scheduled my blog to post this entry automatically just as the Eagle Landed – exactly 40 years ago today at this very historic moment. Because I will be too busy listening to the Apollo 11 re-broadcast here on http://wechoosethemoon.org/. Which brings to mind, where has Neil been in all the hoopla, and why has he been so reclusive about this all?
On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body.
Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.
He was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.
