The spacecraft southern airboat with modules Eagle (lunar module) and Columbia (the command module)

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July 20, 1969 date is of historical importance for humanity. Just that day, exactly 45 years ago, around 20:18 pm, three-man crew consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (nicknamed Buzz) and Michael Collins landed on the lunar surface. southern airboat
The spacecraft southern airboat with modules Eagle (lunar module) and Columbia (the command module) flew from Florida John F. Kennedy Space Center on the Saturn V rocket four days earlier, in July 16, 1969 Take-off rockets southern airboat with spacecraft was followed southern airboat by millions southern airboat of citizens, before only then US President Richard M. Nixon, and many NASA scientists, which is closely southern airboat monitored each stage of the Apollo space missions 11th
First, from the Saturn V rocket separated command module Columbia, which is then merged with the lunar module southern airboat Eagle and continued the flight to the Moon. July 20 Columbia, managed by M. Collins, separated from the module Eagle (which included astronati N. Armstrong and Aldrin Jr. EE) which continued down to the so-called. Sea of Silence (Lat. Mare Tranquillitatis) southern airboat on the surface of the moon. When the moon landing unforeseen changes in the program of landing, a module Eagle was decreasing and the amount of fuel. However, Eagle has successfully landed near the so-called Moon. West Crater, which was confirmed by the spacecraft sensors, as well as employees of NASA in charge of the management and control southern airboat of the Mission.
Program Mission was provided to astronauts, after landing on the moon, sleep, but due to the excitement they have passed this part of the program, preparing to leave the lunar module to the ground. About two hours of the next day (ie. 21 July) Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. When stepping surface of the moon, as presented several notes on the surface of the moon, uttered his famous sentence: This is a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Eng. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind).
Photo: Neil Armstrong, 21 July, 1969 around 02:56 hours out of the lunar module Eagle on the Moon's surface. This fabulous scene at that time could be monitored around 600 million viewers southern airboat across the United States and Australia.
Soon, the moon came out and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., with whom Neil Armstrong near sletjelog modules collected soil samples of the moon and put the American flag with many difficulties, because the ground was extremely hard. This was followed by a telephone conversation with President Nixon enthusiastic. southern airboat
Astronauts have gathered about 20 pounds (more precisely, 22 kg) of material from the surface of the moon for research purposes, southern airboat enter the module Eagle and from it threw more pieces of equipment for the movement of the moon, and soon fell asleep in the module. At the same time the moon should land Soviet southern airboat lunar probe Luna 15, and Eagle should southern airboat prepare for return to Earth. In the foreground broke out the possibility that astronauts stay on the moon because of minor difficulties of technical character, no malfunction was quickly removed so he could take off Eagle from the moon. On the Moon the astronauts left over items of historical importance (eg. Disk on which are engraved the words of many American notables), including part of the auxiliary ladder they used to come down to the ground of the moon. The board attached to the steps allegedly inscription: People with Earth here are first walked on the moon in July 1969. We came in peace for all mankind (Eng. Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 AD We Came in Peace For All Mankind).
Image: The panel is attached to the ladder module Eagle, which the American astronauts left their mark on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. On the panel, along with a brief text, visible drawings of Western and Eastern hemispheres Earth, as well as the signatures of the three astronauts and US President Nixon.
The astronauts returned to Earth, and it is interesting that in the control station for monitoring the flight Guam ten year old managed to fix the device to communicate with the lunar module, which enabled the re-establishment of links with the center on Guam. On 24 July 1969 module Columbia landed southern airboat in the Pacific Ocean, in a position which is about 24 kilometers from the American ship USS Hornet.
After returning to Earth, the astronauts had to change into special suits to prevent possible spread of the disease, which were, it was thought, could infect the moon, and then are transported by boat to the USS Hornet and placed in an isolated room (Eng. Mobile Quarantine Facility). The quarantine spent 21 days, and during that period was visited by President Nixon. southern airboat
Aboard the USS Hornet soon loaded and Columbia, and then, together with the astronauts, transported by plane to Houston. Medical Search d