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Fifty-seven years ago the landing of man on the Moon
It was July 20th and it was very hot. That Sunday evening in 1969, in Jesolo, the bars were packed with people. Back then, in the holiday rental homes, there was no television and people had planned their evening in a venue equipped with a small screen to witness an epoch-making event: the landing of man on the moon.
Apollo 11 departed from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969, with three men on board: Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins. The Lem spacecraft, after separating from Apollo, began its journey to the Moon, approximately 400,000 km away, and reached the orbit of the satellite on July 19. The next day, the Lem, with Armstrong and Aldrin on board, separated from the command module, where Collins remained, and began the descent.
It has touched!
At 10:17 PM, in Italy, the vehicle landed in the area known as the Sea of Tranquility and the astronauts prepared to exit..
“It has touched down!” shouted Tito Stagno, “No, not yet,” replied Ruggero Orlando from Houston. It was a cosmic squabble!
To celebrate this 54th anniversary of the Moon landing, Buzz Aldrin remains, who got married this year at the age of 92.
Michael Collins, born in Rome in 1930 because his father, a general in the U.S. Army, was serving at the U.S. Embassy, was the loneliest man in the Universe: while his two companions were walking on the Moon, he was circling alone in the module that would later bring them back to Earth. Later, he faced some issues with depression, which he overcame brilliantly. He passed away in 2021 at the age of 90.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, died in 2012 at the age of 82.
