Man on the moon 50 years later: Training to land | ABC News

A look at the unusual test platform flown by Neil Armstrong.

On July 16, 1969, the trio lifted into space aboard the Apollo 11 and then entered a lunar orbit. By the next day, Armstrong and Aldrin, aboard the lunar module Eagle, had separated from Collins who remained in the command module.

And on July 20, 1969, Americans and the staff at Apollo Mission Control in Houston, Texas, watched and listened in amazement as Armstrong and then Aldrin placed their feet on the moon's surface.

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[regrob]

Hollywood today does such a better job than they did in those days. LoL

[davidleegoth]

They cant even get out of earth orbit.

[zeeshanraza]

Wish all luck to chandrayaan 2( indian moon mission).

[mikebtrfld]

Lots of good acid available in those days, some may remember..

[jJPyLfGpLKetwBam]

the 50th anniversary of the biggest lie in history :)

[GBOYGAY]

The 1960´s technology was many ways really amazing because it made the NASA Apollo Program 1969-1972 moon landings possible, but since 1972 we haven´t seen moon landings though today, 50 year after the first moon landing, we have much more advanced technology and much more advanced computers etc.. Wernher von Braun was a great rocket, space rocket and missile engineer and a great scientist, a genius,  and his NASA rocket engineer group was commonly full of very competent people, but I am still little suspicious were the 1969-1972 NASA Apollo Program moon landings, even with a moon car and commonly visually very impressive picture and film material etc.,  real or a cold war era propaganda scifi movie project? Especially I wonder why Wernher von Braun was leading a big NASA exploration journey in Antarctica little before the first moon landing, because you can find 100% similar "moon rocks" in Antarctica than the historical NASA Apollo Program´s "moon rocks" are? The NASA astronauts were too very lucky because nobody died or injured serious in space and on the moon between 1969-1972 though they used quite primitive technology etc.. Today we have much more advanced technology, but nobody is going seriously to the moon with human beings. Greetings from Northern Europe, from partly arctic Finland.