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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Moon special souvenir edition save for your grandchildren Winnipeg free press final edition Winnipeg monday july 21, 1969 Sunrise s.43 . Moonrise . Sunset 9-27 . A oort . Forecast showers 60 and 80 astronauts on Way Back j Luna 15 after lunar Triumph Stro Strong Neil a. Arm or. Blasted of safely from the Moon and into rom e Moon an nto lunar orbit today beginning the Complex manoeuvres to link up with their Mother ship. They left behind their footprints in the lunar dust and in the history of Man. If off be5a" 69 seconds command ship with Mich i Al Ltd e5a" seconds command ship with Mich its Lone passenger passed 69 Miles above Tranquility base Pobo Ity lunar module touches Down on the Moon As depicted by free pres artist Peter Kuch. Jet if York up i the new a Fork times in an editorial anti Nixon ing the Satur Day criticizes president Nixon for allegedly trying to., take and Vintage of the apollos he Apollo wives proud Happy sri i the evening has been Moon. Critical phase Blastoff from the lie ably mrs. Today Neil strikes pay dirt Houston a Apollo astronauts struck pay dirt f Iii i 1c seven minutes later they entered orbit and a if All went Well the two ships f would link up at . Cd and head for Home at . Their thrust Lander which settled them onto the surface Sun Day for a 21 a hour stay served them too at liftoff. They left behind the spindly legged lower stage their launching platform As a permanent memento of july 20, Day Man landed on the Moon. It was toe first time a rocket had lifted anything from the Moon. Man stepped out onto the Moon sunday night for toe first time in his two million year history. That s one Small step for declared Armstrong at . One giant leap for just after thai historic moment in Man s quest for his origins Armstrong walked on the dead planet and found the surface very powdery littered with Fine grains of Black dust. Just after 10 cd Armstrong on the Hmar surface and in less than an put on a show for a world wide television audience that will remembered As a truly Beautiful experience.1 the two men walked easily. Talked easily even ran and jumped happily. They picked up rocks talked at length of what they saw. They planted an american Flag saluted it and talked by radio phone with the president of the United states in the White House and then faced the camera and saluted or. Nixon the surface is Fine and Armstrong said. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. Adheres like powdered charcoal to the he went on but i Only go in a Small fraction of an Inch. 1 can see my footprint in the Moon like Fine Grainy Armstrong found he had such Little trouble walking on the Moon that he began talking i almost As if he did t want to leave it. It has a Stark Beauty All its Armstrong said. It s like the desert in the southwestern United states. It s very pretty out Armstrong shared his first incredible moments on the Moon with the whole world As a television camera on the outside i jot1 the wingless landing1 i Craft sent Back an amazingly i Clear picture of his first Steps on the Moon. Armstrong seemed like he i was swimming along taking i and easy Steps on the airless Moon despite the cumbersome i White pressure suit he wore. To be Noi dil Timulty walking he said. As we suspected it s even easier Tolian the one sixth g that we did in simulations on the Chase on Moon Jodrell Bank. England a the soviet Union i landed its unmanned Lima Xiv satellite on the Moon today just i As the american Apollo 11 Asu nauts prepared to take off. Jodrell Bank Observatory or polled. Astronomer sir Bernard Lov i la said Luna transmitted Sig nals to a Landing and it appeared that the unmanned Craft had left orbit and touched Down on toe Moon. Professor John g. Davies Lovell s aide said Luna has Davies said Luna s Landing site was near the sea of crises about 500 Miles from toe Apollo site in the sea of Tranquillity. He said the last signals from Luna were appropriate to a soft we must now await More signals to see if it is taking off said Lovell. 55-year-old director of toe Observatory that has tracked Luna since it entered toe Moon orbit More than four Days ago. Lovell said the soviet Satel i Lite s Retro rockets that could slow it for a descent to the Moon were fired Al . Cd. He said the i signals stopped at Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first Man to set foot on the Moon As he climbs Down the ladder from the lunar module top and stands on the Moon s surface a few seconds later the photographs were taken during a telecast Back to Earth of the history making moment. After consider the Moon Landing the watching toe Moon realest moment of her life. Moon. 0m of the first things he did Armstrong did not i in their prospecting on the to scoop a a Small Sample to i apus aunt to Lumem 01 Ner me .1-1 i Apuin win a da0 the times is Niton has of her Arr Edwin that was when we were Rolelr Lulck Cape tall a a Small butter Fly Whix. a for i to j i had. The least responsibility it is an Honor and or he j she said Ftp Poon program a map pres ice to share with my husband. The a s t r o n a u i s children Denis Kennedy. Joh Xoi and the prow Tho a of the Moon with a Long handled spoon with a bag on the end pm millions hang on every word London up Laplander fantastic. One can scarcely Denis Kennedy himself. Fri commenting on the plan for Nixon to talk to toe astronauts while they Are up and tie suggestion has beef made the White Incuse would be willing to share a split Televik screen with the two lunar pm queers during the Conversa space the american shared in sunday s excitement and in the Praise of their fathers it was pretty exciting causing toe reported. Attempts toe stage with toe astronauts rather the times the time spent by the astronauts on toe Moon too Brief for them to ._._. To in to. Unnecessary intrusion Looss sus publicity stunt the Crew the Craft Public and All of Mankind this magnificent experience of the beginning of lunar earlier mrs. Armstrong expressed her feelings much More simply. I was tremendously she said. It was hard to think it was real until toe men actually i Oil lord i could t finding a great variety of differ looks like it s Aldrin ent rocks which could Tell much said looking Down from the about the Moon s age and Lem said Gin. They saw a Unous m cow purple farther but i can t Armstrong told him it was 11-year-old Andy Aldrin. Had Andy any ambitions to become an astronaut go push it in Bend Down of the two treasure chests they at pm Aldrin started Down the Landing Craft s ten foot us f l to tar a Alt i Iii i u 12-year-old Ricky Armstrong 1 cock act perhaps put it in Orie that i m proud of j j a Sugges said mrs. Aldrin. "3 through this mrs. Aldrin i there might be water and was looking at another answer real Ifa Liu Loc i j j u cored out a five Inch j deep Sample of Jet soil that ladder Aldrin was guided the looks a suggestion Way by Armstrong who _ i i. I. Stew la at t to 4.1__i _ i i Felt after of the Moon touchdown mrs Aldrin said she wept be cause was so "1 thought it was fantastically said mrs. Michael coffins whose husband a i Moon toe newspaper t unworthy of of the United Tro hauts visited toe Lunajr sur Finice you think he is Wito Toem there in Fri col Lins replied when asked of her i husband was disappointed wheat Board cuts prices perhaps Microscope life Neath toe Moon s surface. I the moist dark could simply be stood at the u at the ladder Pastiu ing their Reindeer listened it is on translator radios. Japanese i in stayed up All night to watch on television. Millions around the world Hung on every word from be first Steps cautious Houston a _ they took their first Steps on toe Moon i cautiously like prudent boys j testing the first ice of Winter on j a country Pond. 1 when first they walked they i walked carefully and slowly. Leaning Foi want. Plodding heavily like tired old policeman on 1 beat. As they acquired Confidence. J they walked faster now Wito a slow Bounce in the one sixth j Gravity of the Moon. And then they ran and their stride was i longer than on Earth and their shoes seemed suspended off toe strange lunar surface Wito i something of the floating Quality of figures on slow notion film. When they were still they seemed Frozen and they leaned Forward Liko puppets to be at a lunar form of attention president Nixon spoke trom Earth All the while the Earth was Bright and Beautiful above them in this first incredible Day of an incredible new Era one needs to repeat that the Earth above them. In the distance the lunar sur face looked pocked and leathery like the Back of a dead Alligator up it looked like rubble like Earth levelled rough appearance from tight Armstrong said watch your Pliss plus for portable life support system from underneath. Drop your Pliss Down. You re Clear. About an Inch Clear on your packing of Fine particles of material cautious David Okay Aldrin said you Mckay geologist of toe manned need a Little arching Cuie Oark spacecraft Centre toe two us astronauts walking on the Moon. In some countries Many remained unaware. Communist China with one Quarter of the world s population did not broadcast news about Apollo 11, nor did North Vietnam or North Korea. As Neil Armstrong s boots scuffed the lunar dust it was just before Sunrise in most of place As one by after a disaster dead. I they looked Ghostlike on the crowds in front of to screens soundless airless mostly color less Moon. Over the curving horizon Only one and a half at Paris sidewalk cafes and bars in Rome cheered As us , uric Pilju a flail Strong bounded Over the Moon s i mile away on a planet smaller surface and Buzz Aldrin began i than Earth there was the Black descent. Ness of space and Infinity the when the astronauts landed foreground was starkly lighted Pope Paul hailed them As con of the he said Man faces the expanse of end by the Sun and the men and their vehicle cast Long shadows. It was Dawn on the Moon and a Europe and a crowd still clustered around giant Vul i i. Jujic i Vij o less space and s new Dawn in the history of Man. Today s Index television screen in London s Trafalgar Square Page 7 they found toe crust of toe Moon much harder than numer Ous geologists and astronomers expected they would. It took work to dig out two Ples. At the Jodrell Bank radio Observatory near Manchester. England sir Bernard Lovell Down Britain s swing space expert. When he d stepped onto toe stopped tracking of first rung of the ladder. Aldrin went Back up to toe Lem s front porch to partially close the Lem Hatch. Please see Man walks Page 6 toe Moon to watch Armstrong. I m just speechless with a in a z e m c n Lovell said. 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