Anniversaries.

**maxq** · 16-07-19, 11:37

Originally Posted by westcorklad

50 years ago today, July 16th 1969, the Apollo 11 mission to land the first men on the moon launched from Cape Canaveral.

Keep an eye on the news, in the next few days SpaceX will start the first tests of their Mars rocket

**FranknStein** · 19-07-19, 17:23

50 years ago on July 19 at approximately 17.21 G.M.T. the Apollo 11 mission entered lunar orbit.

**SteveB** · 20-07-19, 07:17

Edmund Percival Hillary was born on the 20th of July 1919.

He was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
On 29 May 1953, he and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

**SteveB** · 20-07-19, 07:33

The Eagle has landed! On July 20, 1969, the Eagle lunar landing module, carrying U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, landed on the Moon, and several hours later Armstrong became the first person to set foot on its surface.

**westcorklad** · 20-07-19, 08:05

Originally Posted by SteveB

The Eagle has landed! On July 20, 1969, the Eagle lunar landing module, carrying U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, landed on the Moon, and several hours later Armstrong became the first person to set foot on its surface.

**FranknStein** · 21-07-19, 13:39

After slightly over 6 and a half hours sitting on the lunar surface Neil Armstrong finally exits the landing vehicle Eagle at 2.56 AM (GMT) on July 21,1969 and is joined by Buzz Aldrin about twenty minutes later.
The third astronaut Michael Collins remains orbiting the moon in the command module Columbia, at a height of sixty miles.

**FranknStein** · 21-07-19, 13:46

Originally Posted by SteveB

Edmund Percival Hillary was born on the 20th of July 1919.

He was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
On 29 May 1953, he and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

He was also a beekeeper, came from the peninsula to the north of Auckland and had an Irish grandmother.

**westcorklad** · 24-07-19, 09:38

On this day in 1969 the Apollo 11 command module Columbia splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to end the first Moon landing mission.

**FranknStein** · 25-07-19, 21:14

Louise Brown,1st"test tube baby", 41 today.

Matt LeBlanc, actor, notably in "Friends", 52 today.

**FranknStein** · 25-07-19, 22:28

One of the final nails in the coffin of Concorde.
It was finally retired late in 2003.

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