Armstrong Was The First Person To Walk On The Moon
On July 16, 1969, at 13:32:00 UTC, a Saturn V rocket at the Kennedy Space Center launched Apollo 11 from Launch Complex 39A. (09:32:00 EDT local time). From a yacht docked on the Banana River, Janet Armstrong, Armstrong's wife, and their two kids observed. Armstrong's heart rate reached a maximum of 110 beats per minute during the launch. The first stage, which was more noisier than the Gemini 8 Titan II launch, was the loudest in his opinion. In comparison to the Gemini spacecraft, the Apollo command module was relatively spacious. The Apollo 11 crew did not experience space sickness, unlike some members of earlier crews. Armstrong was especially happy about this because he had a history of motion sickness as a child and occasionally felt queasy after engaging in prolonged aerobatics.
The goal of the Apollo 11 mission was to successfully land a lunar module. At 02:56 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), on July 21, Armstrong placed his left boot on the lunar surface. Buzz Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and the two of them immediately began testing how people could move about on the Moon. Before Armstrong ventured to East Crater, 65 meters from the Lunar Module, they also placed a plaque and the American flag. Before returning to Eagle, Armstrong and Aldrin left a package for the Apollo 1 astronauts who had perished in a horrific disaster during the 1967 Moon landing attempt, as well as for Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov.
