Play On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz Aldrin”, who were aboard the lunar landing module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, became the first humans to set foot on the moon. The lunar mission was broadcast to an audience numbering in millions on the earth. “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong had famously said when he stepped on the moon. Google also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Nasa’s Apollo 11 mission with a video doodle. Play The Google video is narrated by the command module pilot of Apollo 11, Michael Collins, who orbited around the moon while his fellow astronauts when down to the surface. Here is the restored full version of Nasa’s original mission video, as aired in July 1969, here: Play
How many minutes did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 hours, 36 minutes on the moon's surface.
What time did Armstrong walk on the moon?At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
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