

#FIRST MAN ON THE MOON HISTORY FULL#
For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application Search. Apollo 11 had blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA at 13:32 GMT on 16 July (09:32 EDT) and was a culmination of the US space programme which at its peak employed 376,600 people and in 1966-7 attained a record budget of $5.9 billion.īuzz Aldrin talks Mars, the Moon and breaking recordsĪll records listed on our website are current and up-to-date.

AdvertisementsĮagle landed at 20:17 and 42sec GMT on 20 July (16:17 and 42sec EDT) and lifted off at 17:54 GMT on 21 July (13:54 EDT), after a stay of 21hr 36min. They picked up bits of moon dirt and rocks. He and Aldrin walked around for three hours. There is an astronaut’s footprint in the. In the center is the American flag as it is planted on the lunar surface. On the reverse of 2019 11 oz Silver First Man on the Moon Coins are several images from mankind’s first trip to the Moon. Rome, Italy, of Irish and pre-Revolutionary American ancestry, on ) orbited above. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. The reverse field’s ultra-high-relief proof depicts the surface of the Moon with impressive realism.

On July 21, Armstrong became the first man to. Montclair, New Jersey, USA of Swedish, Dutch and British ancestry, on ), while the command module Columbia piloted by Lt-Col. Collins orbited the Moon while Armstrong and Aldrin descended toward the Moons surface in the Eagle lunar lander. He was followed out of the lunar module Eagle by Col. Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA of Scottish and German ancestry, on ), commander of the Apollo 11 mission, became the first man to set foot on the Moon, on the Sea of Tranquillity, at 02:56 and 15sec GMT on (22:56 and 15sec EDT-Eastern Daylight Time-on ).
