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Coshocton Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 21, 1969, Coshocton, Ohio We re on the Moon 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 Moon 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. Alarm 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. With 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 space boots Cocoa co loved. They were Calm deliberate and encountered 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 Michael Collins circling the Moon in the Apollo 11 command ship and Fly Home to a splash Down in the Pacific Ocean thursday mor Ning the firing of the Eagle s ascent engine to get them off the Moon was scheduled for . Edt. But with half the Mission still left there was no doubt about the place history would assign it. Or. Thomas Paine head of the National aeronautics and space administration said the flight proved the possibility of travel Between the Earth and other 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 but it gave bigger headlines to its still mysterious 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 amt remembered How Neil Armstrong Armstrong got his first close look at the Moon years ago through Zint s 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 Zint said he was surprised at the emotion in Armstrong s voice when he stepped onto the Moon. That was More emotion than i be Ever heard him express before. Even when he talked about things he was excited about like space always had a Calm television clearly showed Armstrong a 38 year old civilian from the same part of Ohio As the Wright Brothers backing Down a nine rung ladder on the lunar module step Ping on the Yard across Landing pad and planting his left foot on the surface. History will Mark the time As . Edt. That was three and a half Days after their Blastoff from Cape Kennedy 6 hours 39 minutes after time Eagle settled on the Moon and eight years and two months after John f. Kennedy committed 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 13-by-6 Inch footprint showing the Zig Zag sole of his space Boot. Twenty minutes later Aldrin 39, an air Force colonel sometimes known As or. 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 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 makeup 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 . 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 69-mile High orbit Eagle began the deliberate drop toward the lunar surface. At feet Armstrong fired Eagle s continued on Page by Edwin Aldrin president Nixon talks from his White House the three Way conversation is on Page by office to both astronauts on the lunar today. Tribune photo taken from Whiz to surface. Nixon termed it the most historic television Telephone Call Ever the full text of Michael Collins coming Down looking Good. Eagle has landed re paper

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