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Google Doodle celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon

[Edited By: Gaurav]

Friday, 19th July , 2019 12:23 pm

The Doodle video is in the voice of Michael Collins, command module pilot (CMP), who stayed on board the lunar orbit control module while Armstrong and Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the moon.

On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission, an extraordinary achievement celebrated by Google with a video Doodle Friday.

As he took his first steps, Armstrong said, "It's a small step for man, a big step for humanity."

The Apollo 11 mission took place eight years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) announced his national goal of landing a man on the moon by the late 1960s.

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Apollo 17, the last inhabited lunar mission, took place in 1972.

About one million people gathered on the beaches of central Florida to attend the launch of Apollo 11, while more than 500 million people around the world watched the event live on television, announced NASA in a statement.

The two astronauts spent more than 21 hours on the lunar surface, deploying scientific experiments and collecting samples before returning to Collins' orbit control module.

During a series of special events, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program - the historic effort that sent the first American astronauts into orbit around the moon in 1968 and landed a dozen astronauts on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972.

For the first time in half a century, NASA's "Artemis" missions will allow scientists and engineers to take a closer look at the lunar surface.