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One Small Step For Buzz Lightyear
Published by Quizologist in Trivia
July 20, 2009
A recent survey by the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s E and T magazine revealed that eight of the 1000 people asked who was the first man to walk on the Moon thought that it was Louis Armstrong, while another 11 said Buzz Lightyear.
NASA’s Apollo 11, which was crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was launched on its four day journey to the Moon from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy by a Saturn V launch vehicle on 16th July 1969. On arrival in lunar orbit Collins remained in the command module Columbia whilst Armstrong and Aldrin transferred to the lunar module Eagle and descended to the surface of the Moon where they landed at 20:17:39 GMT on 20th July (see NASA’s Apollo 11 Timeline). Armstrong and Aldrin both walked on the surface of the Moon while Collins remained in lunar orbit.
Another five Apollo missions, namely 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 successfully followed Apollo 11 to the Moon with two astronauts on the lunar surface on each occasion meaning that during the entire Apollo programme 12 men walked on the Moon.
James Lovell and Fred Haise should have walked on the Moon during Apollo 13 but their lunar landing was aborted after a malfunction. As Lovell had previously been in lunar orbit on Apollo 8 he is the only person to have been to the Moon twice without landing on it.
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