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    1961.

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    At the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Cosmonaut

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    Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

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    Just weeks later, the United States launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepherd.

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    ‘All systems are go!’

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    He was welcomed home as a hero, but President John F Kennedy knew that if the United States

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    was to overtake the Soviet space programme, it needed a bolder mission.

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    “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this

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    decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”

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    As Kennedy addressed congress, the United States had just fifteen minutes of human spaceflight

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    experience.

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    No one knew if a moon landing was even possible, let alone in just nine years.

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    It would be an unprecedented engineering and scientific undertaking, marked by heroism...

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    ...and tragedy.

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    The incredible task of landing an astronaut on the Moon would be known as the Apollo Program.

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    The Apollo Program had been rocked by the tragic death of Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom,

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    Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

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    But it had recovered with the brilliant success of Apollo 7 - the first crewed test of the

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    Command and Service Module.

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    And in 1968, after seven years of intense research and development, NASA had flown three

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    astronauts 240,000 miles from home and into lunar orbit.

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    Apollo 8 flew within 69 miles of the Moon’s surface.

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    But crossing that final gap would be the greatest challenge of The Apollo Program.

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    It would require a completely new and untested type of spacecraft.

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    The Lunar Module.

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    In the wake of Apollo 8’s daring journey to the Moon, Apollo 9 received much less public

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    attention.

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    The mission wasn’t even going to leave Earth orbit.

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    But within the astronaut corps, the first crewed flight of the Lunar Module was seen

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    as an even more exciting challenge.

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    The mission’s commander, Jim McDivitt, had actually turned down the chance to fly to

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    the moon on Apollo 8, choosing Apollo 9 instead.

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    Like many Apollo astronauts, he was a former test pilot, and this was a chance to test

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    a brand new flying machine.

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    [Public Affairs Officer] 2, 1, 0, liftoff!

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    We have liftoff at 11am Eastern Standard Time.

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    Before the test flight of the Lunar Module could begin, the crew had a challenging docking

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    maneuver to perform.

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    The Lunar Module was folded inside the upper stage of the Saturn V rocket, and needed to

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    be extracted using the Command and Service Module.

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    [McDivitt] Roger Houston, we’re at about 25 feet now and moving forward.

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    [McDivitt] Alright Houston, we’re hard docked.

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    [Capcom] Good show.

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    Leaving Command Module pilot Dave Scott to fly the CSM, McDivitt and Lunar Module pilot

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    Rusty Schweickart climbed aboard and undocked.

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    The Lunar Module was the first true spaceship - designed only to fly in the vacuum of space.

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    Its insect-like body was designed without the constraints of aerodynamics, but every

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    panel, bolt and button had to be as light as possible, so the craft could lift itself

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    off the moon’s surface.

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    McDivitt said that it looked ‘like cellophane and tin foil put together with Scotch tape

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    and staples.’

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    He gave his craft the callsign ‘Spider’.

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    Unlike the command module, Spider did not have a heat shield, so it would burn up if

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    it tried to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.

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    So if the astronauts couldn’t re-dock with the Command Module after their test flight,

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    they would have no way of returning home.

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    But Spider’s test flight went perfectly.

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    McDivitt and Schweickart flew the Lunar Module over 100 miles from the Command Module.

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    They tested the ascent and descent engines and returned for a safe rendezvous.

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    The Lunar Module was ready to fly to the moon.

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    NASA had successfully tested both the Command Module and Lunar Module, and made a trip around

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    the moon.

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    Many hoped the next mission would attempt the first moon landing.

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    But NASA needed more experience in communications and tracking two separate spacecraft in lunar

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    orbit.

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    Plus the challenges of rendezvous and docking in the moon’s weaker gravity.

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    And there was another critical unknown.

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    In 1968, NASA scientists discovered that the Moon has a highly uneven gravitational field.

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    This is caused by huge lumps of high-density material in its crust known as mass concentrations

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    or ‘mascons’, which could exert an uneven pull on a spacecraft and throw it off course.

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    Before it was safe to attempt a landing, NASA would need to learn more about the mascons

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    by examining their effect on another Apollo flight.

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    Apollo 10 would be a dress rehearsal for the first landing attempt, flying every part of

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    the mission except for the final descent to the surface.

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    The Apollo 10 crew was Commander Tom Stafford, Command Module Pilot John Young, and Lunar

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    Module Pilot Gene Cernan.

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    All three men were veterans of the Gemini program, and with five missions between them,

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    they were the most experienced crew ever sent into space.

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    Stafford and Cernan flew the Lunar Module to within nine miles of the Moon’s surface.

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    Their successful flight proved every phase of the mission... except for the final descent.

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    Now, everything was in place.

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    It was time to attempt the landing.

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    Apollo 11 would be commanded by Neil Armstrong, a brilliant engineer and test pilot.

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    Early in his NASA career, he’d flown the experimental X-15 rocket plane up to an altitude

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    of 207,000 feet, at speeds of almost 4,000 miles per hour.

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    When he joined the space program as part of NASA’s second astronaut group, he was one

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    of the few astronauts to be offered a command on his first mission, Gemini 8.

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    Gemini 8 achieved the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.

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    But the mission almost ended in disaster when a faulty manoeuvring thruster caused the Gemini

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    capsule to spin wildly.

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    Armstrong’s calm and swift piloting brought the spacecraft under control, and although

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    the mission was cut short, he’d proved his almost superhuman ability to remain calm under

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    pressure.

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    Joining him as Lunar Module Pilot was Buzz Aldrin.

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    A graduate of MIT, Aldrin wrote his doctoral thesis on piloting techniques for orbital

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    rendezvous, and had an extraordinary understanding of orbital mechanics.

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    He’d proven his expertise on Gemini 12.

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    When the spacecraft’s rendezvous radar malfunctioned, he was able to compute the orbital manoeuvres

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    himself, and guide the capsule to a successful docking with an unmanned target rocket.

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    The Command Module Pilot was Michael Collins.

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    He would remain aboard the Command Module whilst Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the

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    Moon.

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    He had no regrets about his assignment, telling reporters that he was going 99.9% of the way

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    there, and that was fine with him.

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    But years later, he would recount his greatest fear – that Armstrong and Aldrin would be

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    stranded on the surface, leaving him to travel back to Earth alone.

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    15th July, 1969.

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    Almost a million people were gathering at Cape Kennedy to watch the three astronauts

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    fly to the Moon.

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    But not everyone was there to celebrate.

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    As launch preparations were made, around 150 people, mostly African American mothers and

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    their children, arrived at Cape Kennedy to protest the launch.

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    They were led by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, who had succeeded Dr Martin Luther King as

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    leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King’s assassination the

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    previous year.

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    Their message was simple - it was inhuman to spend billions of dollars sending men to

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    the moon while one in five Americans lacked proper food, shelter and healthcare.

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    NASA Administrator Thomas Paine met with the protestors the evening before the launch.

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    He told Abernathy that ‘if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the

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    button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button.’

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    Their terse meeting resolved nothing, but it ended with a handshake, and a promise by

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    Abernathy that he would pray for the safe flight of the astronauts.

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    The following day, ten of the protestors were invited into the VIP stands, to watch the

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    launch of Apollo 11.

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    10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, all engines running, liftoff, we

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    have a liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11.

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    Four days later on the 20th July, Armstrong and Aldrin climbed into their Lunar Module,

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    callsign ‘Eagle’.

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    They undocked and began their descent to the lunar surface.

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    Armstrong - ‘The Eagle has wings!’

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    Years of hard work and training had led to this moment.

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    The descent to the lunar surface would test their skills to the very limit.

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    Back on Earth, in Houston, Texas, the staff of mission control watched as Eagle passed

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    behind the moon for a final time.

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    They monitored every system in both spacecraft, and guided the astronauts through the complex

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    flight plan.

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    And the success of the mission was about to rest on the shoulders of 26-year old guidance

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    officer, Steve Bales.

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    It’s a 1202 Stand by

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    1202 The master alarm sounded in the Lunar Module

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    cockpit.

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    Eagle’s guidance computer was trying to tell the astronauts that something was wrong.

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    Its simple display showed the numbers ‘12 02’, but neither Armstrong or Aldrin knew

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    what this meant.

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    ‘Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm’ Flight Director Gene Kranz was seconds away

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    from calling an abort.

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    He turned to Bales for answers.

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    ‘12 02’ meant the guidance computer was overloaded.

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    It had too many tasks to complete in its computing cycle, and was dropping some in order to continue

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    functioning.

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    Without a working guidance computer, the astronauts would have to abort.

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    But - the alarm wasn’t sounding continuously.

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    This meant that most computational cycles were being completed properly.

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    Bales decided that as long as the problem was only intermittent, the landing could continue.

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    ‘We’re go on that, flight, if it doesn’t reoccur we’ll be go.

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    But then another problem: the Lunar Module was approaching the surface too fast, and

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    had overshot its intended landing site.

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    Now, the computer was guiding them towards a massive, football stadium sized crater,

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    surrounded by a field of car-sized boulders.

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    With the Lunar Module almost out of fuel, Armstong took manual control.

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    Mission control could only watch.

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    The landing rested on Armstrong’s piloting skills.

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    60 seconds Lights on

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    4 forward, drifting to the right a little Down a half

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    30 seconds Contact light

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    Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed As around 600 million people watched from

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    Earth, Armstrong took his first steps on the lunar surface.

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    ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’

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    The precisely choreographed Moonwalk had taken two years to plan.

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    For two hours and forty minutes, Armstrong and Aldrin gathered rock samples, set up scientific

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    experiments, and took photographs.

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    The Apollo 11 crew returned home as heroes, their names now amongst those of the greatest

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    explorers in history.

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    We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore

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    the unknown.

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    Buzz Aldrin Now that President Kennedy’s goal had been

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    accomplished, was there any point in returning to the moon?

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    What was left for the Apollo Program to achieve?

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    The new mission would be science.

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    The Moon’s origins remained a mystery.

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    Where did it come from?

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    Could its scarred surface tell the story of the early solar system, and in turn help us

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    understand the origins of our own world?

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    But although NASA now possessed the knowledge and technology to land on the Moon, it would

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The example sentences of SUPERHUMAN in videos (15 in total of 52)

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Use "superhuman" in a sentence | "superhuman" example sentences

How to use "superhuman" in a sentence?

  • Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
    -Gaston Bachelard-
  • The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.
    -Pope Francis-
  • Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
    -Penelope Leach-
  • Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
    -Orlando Bloom-
  • In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
    -Criss Jami-
  • Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.
    -Goran Visnjic-
  • Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
    -Victor Hugo-
  • We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.
    -Kenzo Tange-

Definition and meaning of SUPERHUMAN

What does "superhuman mean?"

/ˌso͞opərˈ(h)yo͞omən/

adjective
Above or beyond human power or endurance.
noun
Human with special power or endurance.

What are synonyms of "superhuman"?
Some common synonyms of "superhuman" are:
  • extraordinary,
  • phenomenal,
  • prodigious,
  • stupendous,
  • exceptional,
  • great,
  • immense,
  • enormous,
  • heroic,
  • godlike,
  • Herculean,
  • remarkable,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.

What are antonyms of "superhuman"?
Some common antonyms of "superhuman" are:
  • average,
  • unremarkable,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.