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# When was the first moon landing?
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## Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?

- After World War Two ended, the **USA** and the **USSR** (Russia) started **competing** with each other to explore space.
- In 1969 **Neil Armstrong** became the first person to walk on the **Moon**.
- The Mission was called **Apollo 11**.
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### Video TranscriptVideo Transcript
\[Uplifting music\]
**PAO (Ground control):**
Three, two, one, zero, all engines running.
LIFT OFF\!
We have a lift off\!
32 minutes past the hour. Lift off on Apollo 11.
**Eagle (spaceship crew):**
Loud and clear.
Four forward, drifting to the right a little.
**PAO:**
Thirty seconds.
**Eagle:**
Okay, engine stop.
**Capsule Communicator (CapCom):**
We copy you down, Eagle.
**Eagle (Neil Armstrong):**
Houston, Tranquility base here.
The Eagle has landed.
**Neil Armstrong:**
I'm going to step off the LM now.
That's one small step for a man.
One giant leap for mankind.
**Eagle (Buzz Aldrin):**
That looks beautiful from here, Neil.
**Neil Armstrong:**
It has a stark beauty all its own.
It's like much of the high desert of the United States.
It's different but it's very pretty out here.
\[Uplifting music\]
**Neil Armstrong:**
Hello, Hornet. This is Apollo 11 reading you loud and clear. Our position 1330, 16915.
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## What was Apollo 11?

- **President John F. Kennedy** wanted to put a man on the moon.
- **Apollo 11** was the name of the mission that landed on the Moon in July 1969.
- It used Saturn rockets to launch, made by **Wernher von Braun**.


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Neil Armstrong with his space suit and helmet.
- The first person to walk on the Moon was **Neil Armstrong**.
- The second person was **Buzz Aldrin**.
- They spent 2 hours 31 minutes walking on the surface of the Moon.
- Armstrong and Aldrin took **photographs** and sent live television pictures back to earth.
- As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, he said, **“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”**
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## What happened after Apollo 11?

- There were **five more landings** on the Moon after Apollo 11.
- The last landing on the Moon was in 1972 (Apollo 17).
- **NASA** began a **Space Shuttle programme** in 1972
- In 1998 the **International Space Station** was launched.

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## Did you know?

- Only **12 people** have ever walked on the Moon.
- It would take you over **nine years** to walk to the Moon.
- A typical tablet or mobile phone has **many more times** the **memory** than the computers that put the Apollo 11 on the Moon.
- In 1957 the USSR sent a **dog** called Laika into space, in Sputnik 2.
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