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Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turns 45

An anonymous reader writes On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong would say later he thought the crew had a 90% chance of getting home from the moon, and only a 50% chance of landing safely. The scope of NASA's Apollo program seems staggering today. President Kennedy announced his moon goal just four years into the Space Age, but the United States had not even launched a human into orbit yet. Amazingly, just eight years later, Armstrong and Aldrin were walking on the moon.

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  1. Boring Hollywood movie. by abrahamOH · · Score: 0, Troll

    Old US propaganda from 60s.
    Everything was possible back then. Now, when technology is here to catch any fakes, no one makes any attempts to do "Moon Landings"

    This chapter of US history is so pathetic.