We're On The The Coshocton Tribune Astros Leave Lunar Surface Tuesday Tribune VOL 60 NO 326 COSHOCTON OHIO MONDAY EVENING JULY 21 1969 TEN CENTS One Small Step For Man One Giant Leap For Mankind We're On The Liftoff Scheduled This Afternoon SPACE CENTER Houston America's two moon pioneers completed man's first exploration of the lunar surface today and sealed themselves back in their spaceship Eagle for the hazardous voyage home to earth But no matter what lay ahead Neil A Armstrong and Edwin E Jr already belong to history as the first to set foot on the surface of the moon In doing so they made a great leap for mankind toward new conquests of the universe They collected about 80 pounds of lunar stones and dirt for study by scientists on earth Witb millions the world over watching the black and white television pictures they beamed back Armstrong and Aldrin planted the American flag and explored the gray alien surface of rocks rilles ridges and dust that turned their blue cocoa They were calm deliberate and en- countered no difficulty during their time outside Eagle hours and 11 minutes for Armstrong and 29 minutes less than that for Aldrin They still had to blast off front the moon in the lunar module rendezvous with Mi- chael Collins circling the moon in the Apollo 11 and fly home to a down in the Pacific Ocean Thursday ning The firing of the Eagle's ascent engine to get them off the moon was scheduled for p.m EDT But with half the mission still left there was no doubt about the place history would assign it Dr Thomas Paine head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the flight proved the possibility of travel between the earth and other bodies The heavens have become part of man's President Nixon told the astronauts from the White House miles away REPORT ON The flight captured not only the imagination of the space program leading to it cost roughly for every man woman and child but people around the world The Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda said The courageous cosmonauts have landed on the moon But it gave bigger headlines to its Luna 15 which remained in lunar orbit American GIs in Vietnam clustered around radios to listen to accounts of the landing and moon walk So did Boy Scouts attending their jamboree in Farragut State Park Idaho In Armstrong's hometown of both Armstrong and Aldrin are former Jacob remembered how Neil Armstrong Armstrong got his first close look at the moon years ago through homemade telescope on top of his garage It's unbelievable when I think of all those times Neil and I talked of what it would be like up Zint said And now he's there his dream has come true Zint said he was surprised at the emotion in Armstrong's voice when he stepped onto the moon That was more emotion than I've ever heard him express before Even when he talked about things he was excited about like space always had a calm voice Television clearly showed a year-old civilian from the same part of Ohio as the Wright Brothers backing down a ladder on the lunar module step- ping on the landing pad and planting his left foot on the surface History will mark the time as p.m EDT That was three and a half days after their blastoff from Cape Kennedy 6 hours 39 minutes after tije Eagle settled on the moon and eight years and two months after John F Kennedy commited the nation to try for such a landing in this decade That's one small step for giant leap for Armstrong said as he left a inch footprint showing the zag sole of his Twenty minutes later Aldrin 39 an Air Force colonel sometimes known as Dr for his work on orbital mechanics joined him On television the men appeared as shadowy but clear figures when they were in the shade of the Eagle When the sun shone off their white space suits the picture blurred After re-entering Eagle early today and before eating and bedding down for several hours sleep Armstrong and Aldrin threw out 1 million dollars worth of special equipment that they will leave behind on the moon Donald E Deke Slayton chief of the astronauts then told the Eagle crew I would like to say from all of us down here in Houston and all of us in all countries in the entire world that we think you have done a magnificent job up there Thank you very Armstrong said It's been a long added Aldrin Get some rest and get at it Slayton said The time was 4 EDT A wakeup call from the ground for the Eagle pilots was due about with Collins being awakened an hour before that The events that made the 20th day of July in the year 1969 A D so historic came at an almost dizzying pace It p.m EDT when Armstrong and Aldrin riding their lunar lander cut themselves loose from the command ship Columbia with only Collins left aboard Eagle has radioed Armstrong While Columbia remained in a high orbit Eagle began the deliberate drop toward the lunar surface At feet Armstrong fired Eagle's Continued On Page Edwin Aldrin President Nixon talks from his White House the three-way conversation is on page office to both astronauts on the lunar today Tribune photo taken from surface Nixon termed it the most historic television telephone call ever made The full text of Michael Collins Coming Down Looking Good Eagle Has