entered the moon to explore and stay on the moon and rest in peace. these brave men, neil armstrong and aldren know there is no hope with their recovery, but they also know there is hope foreman kind in for mankind in their sacrifice. that s if you didn t make it. it was pioneering. it was doing something that hadn t anywhere been done before. armstrong aldren and collins splashed down on july 24th, 1969. the space race was over. stars and stripes still there. coming up inmi the 1960 there s was a hit tv show lost in space and a movie marooned. as long as humans dreamed of exploring the heavens they shuddered at the possibility of never getting back. the astronauts of apolo 13, that nightmare almost came true.
dazzling pillar of fire. the trip from the earth to the moon without incident. we have a happy home. there is plenty of room for the three of us. anda then four days into the missionme came time to do what no astronaut had done before. decouple the lunar module named eagle from the command module and guide it safely to the moon. on their way down, armstrong and aldren realized they were going long, beyond the landing zone and into a boulder field. that s when armstrong took over. diverting from the planned computer path, he was now flying above unfamiliar territory. he was searching for a safe spot to land while running low on fuel. so we are on the far side of what was undesirable, and i am reading the altitude. it is about a hundred feet. 60. 60 seconds.
man, one giant leap for man kind.m, we said have you thought about what you are goingwe to say? well i don t know. when we land i will think about it. i nevert know when to take him seriously. armstrong and aldren only spent a few hours on the surface, but it was enough time to bounce around and set up scientific experiments and collect moon rocks and take several famous photos. aldren with the american flag, a footprint on the moon and probably the most iconic of all. just walking and then he said, stop. hold it. and i stopped and looked at himst and they took the picture. people haveur asked me what is the significance of this picture. i say i got three words,