1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hi. Everyone, Welcome to This Day in History Class, 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: where we uncover the remnants of history every day. Today 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: is July twenties nineteen. The day was July twentieth, nineteen 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: sixty nine. U S astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin buzz 6 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Aldrin became the first people on the Moon when Apollo 7 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: eleven landed on its surface in the late nineteen fifties. 8 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties, the space race between the US 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: and the Soviet Union was in full swing. In nineteen 10 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: sixty one, not long after the Soviet Union and US 11 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: sent the first people into space, US President John F. 12 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: Kennedy declared before Congress his commitment to landing someone on 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: the Moon before the end of the decade. So NASA 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: dedicated the Apollo program to Kennedy's mission. The first uncrewed 15 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: Apollo space flight launched in nineteen sixty six, and the 16 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: first crude flight was Apollo seven. In October of nineteen 17 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: sixty eight. Apollo seven tested the Apollo Command in Service 18 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: module in Low Earth orbit. The Apollo program went on 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: to send astronauts to orbit the Moon and tested the 20 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: lunar module. While in Earth orbit in Apollo ten, the 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: Apollo lunar module was flown into a descent orbit in 22 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: a dry run for the first moon landing, which would 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: happened two months later. On the morning of July sixteenth, 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Apollo eleven launched from KPE Kennedy commander 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: Neil Armstrong, Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and Command module 26 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: pilot Michael Collins were aboard. On July seventeenth, the first 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: color TV transmission from Apollo was sent to Earth. On 28 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: July nineteenth, the spacecraft went into lunar orbit, and on 29 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: July twenties, Armstrong and Aldrin entered the lunar module, which 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: separated from the command module, where Collins remained in lunar orbit. 31 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: One and two hours, forty five minutes and forty seconds 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: after launch, the lunar module Eagle landed on the Moon. 33 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: Hours after landing, Armstrong left the lunar module and stepped 34 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: onto the Moon, setting up the TV camera for transmission 35 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: back to Earth. About twenty minutes later, Aldrin also exited 36 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: the lunar module and took his first steps on the Moon. 37 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: About six hundred and fifty million people watched the mission 38 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: on television as the astronauts became the first ever to 39 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: walk on the Moon. They took photographs of the Moon's 40 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: surface and the lunar horizon, took samples of lunar surface materials, 41 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: and planted a U. S. Flag. They also left behind 42 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: medallions with astronauts and cosmonauts who died in accidents, as 43 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: well as a silicon disc that contained goodwill messages from 44 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: seventy three countries. The astronauts spoke with President Richard Nixon 45 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: by telephone link. After the two astronauts re entered the 46 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: lunar module and slept for about seven hours, they began 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: their assent from the lunar surface. Aldrin and Armstrong spent 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: twenty one hours and thirty six minutes on the surface 49 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: of the Moon. The Lunar module docked with Command Module Columbia, 50 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: and Armstrong and Aldrin went back to the Command Module 51 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: with Collins. On July, the Apollo eleven crew landed in 52 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean about nine hundred miles or fourteen hundred 53 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: kilometers southwest of Hawaii. The U. S. S. Hornet was 54 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: the primary recovery ship for Apollo eleven. The astronauts were 55 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: sent to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at NASA's Lyndon B. 56 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: Johnson Space Center for quarantine. The astronauts moon landing and 57 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: returned to Earth was celebrated with parades, a state dinner, 58 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: and a world tour. Collins, Aldrin, and Armstrong were each 59 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Five later, Apollos and 60 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: also landed astronauts on the Moon. The whole Apollo program 61 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: cost around twenty six billion dollars. Though a lot of 62 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: people celebrated the feat, many Americans protested the allocation of 63 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: so much money and resources to accomplishing a moon landing 64 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: when they were pressing issues to attend to on Earth. 65 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: I'm Eves Jeff Coote, and hopefully you know a little 66 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: more about history today than you did yesterday. Get more 67 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: Notes from History on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at T 68 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: D I h C podcast Tune in tomorrow for another 69 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: Day in History. 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