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20 July 1969. The entire world seemed to hold its breath, as astronaut Neil Armstrong slowly climbed down the ladder of Apollo 11 to be the first man to stand on the Moon. The landing was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. This fascinating book captures all the drama of that incredible moment for mankind, as well as what happened in the run up to it and what happened aftewards.

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Publié par	Capstone Global Library
Date de parution	11 juillet 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781474778640
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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TVBRINGSTHEMOONLANDINGTOEARTH

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TV BRINGS THE MOON LANDING TO

T V B R I N G S T H E MOON LANDING TOEARTH

Rebecca Rissman

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Editor: Michelle Bisson Designer: Tracy McCabe Media Researcher: Svetlana Zhurkin Production by Katy LaVigne Printed and bound in India

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AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Getty Images: CBS Photo Archive, 31, 35, PhotoQuest, 11, ullstein bild/Quurke, 46; NASA, cover, 5, 6, 9, 14, 19, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 32, 37, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 51, 56 (top right and bottom), 57, 58, 59, Kim Shiflett, 54; Newscom: Universal Images Group/Sovfoto, 26, UPI/Jim Ruymen, 53, Zuma Press/Photoshot/Uppa, 12; Shutterstock: Aleks49, 17, 56 (top left).

We would like to thank Alan Schroeder, Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University, USA, for his invaluable help in the creation of this book.

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CONTENTS

4 ChapterOne:Tension ............................................ 16 ChapterTwo:The race to the moon...................... 34 ChapterThree:The mission................................. 47 ChapterFour:A lasting impact ............................

56 Timeline ......................................................... 60 Glossary ......................................................... 61 Find out more.................................................. Source notes ...62 ................................................ 63 Select bibliography .......................................... Index .............................................................64

ChapterOne TENSION

At 4:18 pm on 20 July 1969, two astronauts felt the spidery legs of their spacecraft settle onto the surface of the Moon. The bleak, stark landing site was called the Sea of Tranquility. It was an illsuited name for such a spot. It was desolate and dangerous, anything but tranquil – and not even a sea! Astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke calmly into his headset radio: “Houston,” he began. “Tranquility Base here. TheEaglehas landed.” Around 394,300 kilometres (245,000 miles) away, NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, USA, erupted into cheers. The giant room was filled with row after row of consoles. These were workstations for engineers, doctors, navigation specialists and technical advisers. Each person had a crucial role to play in keeping the astronauts alive, helping them land on the Moon, and then getting them back home to Earth safely. The crew was radioed by the man sitting behind the Capsule Communication console (CAPCOM). “Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.” NASA had just accomplished something amazing. It had sent a crew of astronauts on a mission called

Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon, was photographed by Neil Armstrong, the first to do so.

Apollo 11 all the way to the Moon. Astronaut Michael Collins remained in a part of the spacecraft called the command module (CM). This orbited around the Moon. At the same time, two other astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, rode a lunar module (LM) calledEagledown to the surface of the Moon.