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elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Just weeks after becoming the first man to walk on the moon, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong celebrated his 39th birthday in quarantine. It’s something all of us have experienced after a year of pandemic life, but it’s highly unlikely that many other birthdays were celebrated in quarantine in 1969. Armstrong wasn’t expecting to have a birthday party on August 5. He, along with fellow astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin served a 21-day quarantine after their historic mission to the moon caused them to interact with lunar material. The reason for that caution was twofold. The astronauts may have been exposed to harmful bacteria or other unknown elements. The mission was the first time humans had interacted with the surface of another celestial body. Doctors closely monitored the astronauts, while a separate team tested and studied the lunar rocks and dust brought back by the astronauts.

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