Did you watch the anniversary shows about the July 20 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing?
Nasa marked the anniversary by streaming footage of the launch online. The original was watched by half a billion people 50 years ago. There is a picture of Pope Paul VI watching the landing.
Michael Collins, the "third" crew member, told Fox News that it's "not very often" he thinks about the mission.
"I lead a quiet life," he said. "I'll be walking along down my street at night, when it's starting to get dark, and I sense something over my right shoulder - and I look up and see that little silver sliver up there and think, 'Oh, that's the Moon! I've been there!'"
Here are a few more quotes from them to remind us of how remarkable they were:
"Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn't open, it doesn't work."
~Buzz Aldrin
"I thought, well, when I step off it's just going to be a little step — a step from there down to there — but then I thought about all those 400,000 people who had given me the opportunity to make that step and thought it's going to be a big something for all those folks and, indeed for a lot of others that weren't even involved in the project, so it was kind of a simple correlation."
~Neil Armstrong on his famous quote
Here are a few more quotes from them to remind us of how remarkable they were:
"Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn't open, it doesn't work."
~Buzz Aldrin
"I thought, well, when I step off it's just going to be a little step — a step from there down to there — but then I thought about all those 400,000 people who had given me the opportunity to make that step and thought it's going to be a big something for all those folks and, indeed for a lot of others that weren't even involved in the project, so it was kind of a simple correlation."
~Neil Armstrong on his famous quote
"I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced."
~Michael Collins on Twitter
"I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side."
~Michael Collins on orbiting the moon alone
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer — born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."
~Neil Armstrong on being an engineer
A pretty garden flower - Bergamot, Bee Balm, Monarda - it has a few names.
~Michael Collins on Twitter
"I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side."
~Michael Collins on orbiting the moon alone
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer — born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."
~Neil Armstrong on being an engineer
A pretty garden flower - Bergamot, Bee Balm, Monarda - it has a few names.
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