Moon mission links Apollo 11 to home orbit
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin blast from the moon to lunar orbit to join Michael Collins. Televised footage reaches about 500 million viewers as the astronauts prepare for docking and a return voyage.
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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1969
Page
1
Luna 15 Lands On The Moon
NASA era coverage reports Luna 15 landing on the Moon near the Sea of Crises, 500 miles from Apollo site. Jodrell Bank confirms unmanned probe achieved a soft touch. Armstrong and Aldrin describe motion in one sixth gravity as Collins watches from above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jodrell Bank
England
Russia
America
Apollo
Earth
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Moon
Jodrell Observatory
Sir Bernard Lovell
Luna
John G. Davies
Lovell
Moscow
Nixon
Armstrong
Aldrin
Neil A. Armstrong
Eagle
Richard Danforth
Old Orchard Beach Merry-Go-Round Remembered Fire Loss
Special Patrolman Francis Stone recalls the Old Orchard Beach pier ride burned in 1965. The Dentzel carved animals, painted yearly by Otho Baker, and the brass ring tradition highlighted a once iconic summer charter of the Ocean Pier Amusement Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Francis Stone
Pleasant St
Saco
Whiteway
Wrnter
Dentzel
Philadelphia
Otho Baker
Pine Point
Baker
France
Whiteway Amusement Area Devastated By Fire
State and local fire inspectors plan to begin an official inquiry today into the cause of a large blaze that destroyed much of the Whiteway amusement district in Old Orchard Beach. Flames visible from Kennebunkport to the northside decimated rides including a 1913 merry-go-round and Noah’s Ark, with a partial pier damaged and hundreds displaced as crowds clogged streets. Firefighters from seven communities battled the fire for hours with no deaths, though a 12 year old Berlin New Hampshire girl suffered second degree burns and was hospitalized. police and state troopers manned extensive road blocks as power was cut along Old Orchard Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Kennebunk
Portand
Whiteway
Louis R. Wharff
Old Orchard Street
Biddeford
Anita Morneau
Berlin
N.H
John H. Clark
York County Sheriff's Department
Surg
Helmet Is Fire Casualty
A blaze Saturday night in Old Orchard Beach destroyed a fire helmet worn by a department member. The helmet twisted from the heat and the firefighter’s face was splattered with melted plastic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old
Fire blocks pier as flames trap several people
Firemen using ladders pulled most trapped individuals from the burning pier. Some escaped on their own while rumors said several jumped into the water. Local and state police and sheriff deputies aided crowd and traffic control as thousands gathered amid the blaze.
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Ama
Byrd
Michael Collins
Tranquillity Base
Mission Control
Neil
Gienas Lamuea
Gious Man
Houston Tranquillity
Planet Earth
Collins
California
High Desert
The
United
By Peggy Welch
By Francis Stone
Bill Casavant
Biddeford-Saco Journal
Biddeford Saco Journal
Peggy Welch
Ocean Pier
Old Orchard
Orchard Beach
Wilfred Duffy
Ocean Pier Amusement Corp
William Dentzel
Duffy
White Way
Machinists
Plas-Met Manufacturing Corp
Mount Pleasant St
Claude Dubois
Feinberg
Alfred Street
South ST
Sandwich Shop
Main St. Biddeford
Ray
Pepperell Square
By Bill Houston
Sam’s
Alfred St. Biddeford
Brunswick Hotel
Cadillac Willie
Saco Tourist Guide
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