X-Nico

19 unusual facts about Apollo 11


Ángela Rodicio

Cirilio Rodríguez reported the most important events of the sixties and the seventies like the arrival of the man to the moon, the Watergate scandal and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Apollo Perelini

He was named 'Apollo 11' because he was born on the day that the Apollo space project was launched.

Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaeton

It has carried many dignitaries, celebrities and notables over the years, including the Apollo 11 astronauts.

Culture Day

The prize is not restricted to Japanese citizens, and for instance was awarded to the Apollo 11 astronauts upon their successful return from the moon, as well as literary scholar Donald Keene.

Farragut State Park

While traveling to the moon aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong extended a greeting to the scouts attending the national jamboree in Idaho.

Hollywood and Vine

Later Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the astronauts of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11, were awarded television stars for coverage of the mission, and given the places of honor at the exact corners of Hollywood and Vine.

Jack Spector

In it, a reporter asks the astronauts questions about a fictional "Achilles moon flight", with the responses taken from snippets of popular songs of the day.

Jean Ven Robert Hal

It is a song entirely dedicated to the first "Moon Landing" in 1969, Apollo 11, where you can listen to the voices of the Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, processed electronically.

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

The first science conference, known as the Apollo 11 Lunar Science Conference, was held in Houston from January 5–8, 1970.

Palio di Siena

After exceptional events (e.g., the Apollo 11 moon landing) and on important anniversaries (e.g., the centennial of the Unification of Italy), the Sienese community may decide to hold a third Palio between May and September.

Paul Helms

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 had liftoff to make the first moon landing and then return to earth as per President Kenndey's objective.

Ramón E. López

When he was a child his father gave him a telescope as a birthday present, and the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 inspired him to seek an education in the field of Space Physics.

Robert S. Galen

While in medical school Galen held an externship at Manned Spacecraft in Houston, Texas during the July 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.

Rolf Brahde

He also published popular science books and articles, he was a common guest in radio and television programmes and provided commentary for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation during the television coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Susan B. Anthony dollar

The reverse commemorates the Apollo 11 moon landing with an image of the mission insignia, a design recycled from the earlier Eisenhower Dollar.

The Space Movie

The Space Movie is a documentary film produced in 1979 by Tony Palmer at the request of NASA, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

United States Air Force Academy Cemetery

Samuel C. Phillips, Air Force four-star general, Director of Apollo Program through Apollo 11 - Man's First Steps on the Moon.

Wallace Barnes

The Associated Spring Corp. supplied the springs for Apollo 11 when it landed on the moon in 1969.

Wolf Mittler

There he became best known for his simultaneous translation of Kennedy's speech addressing the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and the first manned moonlanding live in 1969, among others.


Agent J

His father, United States Army Colonel James Edwards Jr, was working security at Kennedy Space Center for the Apollo 11 launch when he was murdered by Boris the Animal after assisting Agent K in stopping a chain of events that would have led to K's death and a widescale invasion of Earth forty years later.

Apollo 11 missing tapes

The Apollo 11 missing tapes are missing slow-scan television (SSTV) recordings of the lunar transmissions broadcast during the Apollo 11 moonwalk, which was the first time human beings walked on the Moon.

Aviation in Washington, D.C.

It features some of aviation's most influential aircraft including the Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11 command module.

East Kentucky Broadcasting

On July 16, 1969, Walter E. May provided live coverage of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral.

Kent County, Delaware

The suits, dubbed the "A7L," was first flown on the Apollo 7 mission in October 1967, and was the suit worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission.

Man in Space Soonest

:Flew on Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions; performed the first docking of two spacecraft, was the first -- along with Buzz Aldrin -- to land on the Moon, and was the first person to set foot on the Moon

Mobile Quarantine Facility

The Apollo 11 crew also used this to speak with President Nixon who personally welcomed them back to Earth aboard the recovery ship after splashdown.

NASA Astronaut Group 2

:Apollo 11 - July 1969 - Commander - First manned lunar landing; first person to walk on the Moon

New York lunar sample displays

The New York lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of New York by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.

OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon

The ‘sugar scoop’ became famous again on 21 July 1969, the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing, relaying Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon from NASA's Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, to Perth's TV audience via Moree earth station - the first live telecast into Western Australia.