this is Apollo Saturn launch control we
passed the six-minute mark on our
countdown for Apollo 11 the flights to
land at the first men on the moon and
ignition sequence start
of Apollo 11 drifted over four days in
space
navigating by the Stars we have to go
given week there were Lander Eagle
undock from the main ship Michael
Collins stayed in the command strong
Armstrong recounts his impressions I
think perhaps the final descent to the
lunar surface was for me that the
highlight of the flight is very
challenging a lot of unknowns and it was
for a pilot that it was a a wonderful
experience on January 12 1969
ratnamma world was wide television
pictures of Neil Armstrong's descent
from the homeland he paused and stepped
on to the powdery surface becoming the
first human to set foot on another
planet
neil armstrong recalls when he decided
on those historic words well actually i
didn't worry about it until after
landing because i guess in my own new we
didn't that good chance of completing a
successful landing did was i did think
about it between that time of landing
and the time when we actually exited the
spacecraft orbiting nearly every 45
minutes in the command service module
michael collins stayed in close contact
with his colleagues on the lunar surface
mighty signs were not within the command
module but simply that something might
go wrong with the lamb with the lunar
module and these two guys might get
stuck on the surface of the moon that
was my my main concern during the two
and a half hours they spend on the
moon's surface the Armstrong northern
interior managed to collect 45 pounds of
moon rock and soil samples so that two
experiments and raise an American flag
walking under my condo problem with
one-sixth the gravity of Earth bounding
across stretches of magnificent
desolation was actually a for those
Edwin it's just celestial neighbors of
father memory there was a stranger to me
before the mission but I now look back
at it and somewhat of a friend a place
that I visited
the first moon landing was a
technological challenge met head-on by
this nation after Apollo 11 there were
six more missions to go Ingram the three
men who made the initial journey believe
we will return maybe just as a stopover
point for further exploration to Mars or
beyond