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Old 19-07-2012, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by pmrid View Post
43 years ago (tomorrow 20th July, 1961) Armstrong walked on the moon. Hard to credit where we have come since then, but his was, indeed a giant leap.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html

Peter
Peter,

You are one day out.

The first moon walk took place on July 21st 1969 at around 02:56 UTC,
which was 12:56 AEST.

It happened to be July 20th in the United States, but that's simply
because they are several hours west of Greenwich.

In any case, the walk anniversary will be this coming Saturday,
not tomorrow (Friday).

The 1961 was obviously a typo.
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