Apollo 11 moon landing – Nasa reveals stunning NEW photos from lunar surface to celebrate mission’s 50th anniversary
NASA has released previously unseen panorama images of Apollo landing sites, highlighting a landscape once described by Buzz Aldrin as "magnificent desolation".
The images were created to celebrate today's 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The new images were created to honour the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
US astronauts blasted off from Earth towards the Moon on July 16, 1965.
And on July 20, space heroes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.
Apollo 11 mission – the key facts
Here's what you need to know...
- Apollo 11 is the name for the mission that landed the first two people on the Moon
- The spaceflight was manned by Command Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both Americans
- They landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969 and 8.17pm UTC
- Armstrong became the first person to set food on the lunar surface six hours later
- He was then joined by Aldrin a further 19 minutes later
- The pair spent roughly two hours and 15 minutes together outside the spacecraft, collecting lunar material to bring back to Earth
- And in total, they spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining the command module Columbia in lunar orbit
- Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast live on TV to the world
- He famously described the moment as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
Some of the panorama images in this article have been cropped to fit the page.
The Apollo 11 astronauts also had to cope with no toilet, and resorted to using bags taped to their bums.
Sadly, some people still thing the whole event we faked – we bust the most popular Apollo 11 Moon landing myths.
And here's why some people still think the Moon landings were faked 50 years later – and the man who started the ‘hoax’ theory.
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