Nasa's Greatest Missions, From Apollo To Voyager

Buzz Aldrin unpacks instruments from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Photo: NASA

From The Telegraph:

Nasa’s ‘Moon bombing’ LCROSS mission has successfully crashed into the lunar surface. We look back at five of the space agency’s other most important missions.

Apollo
Without doubt the most important of all: the first time a human being has stood on the surface of another world.

In 1969, eight years after US President John F Kennedy announced that man would walk on the Moon and be returned safely to Earth, two men – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin – did exactly that. Ten more would follow in the next six years.

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