Jun Fan A flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on July 20, , killing 84 people and causing millions of dollars in damages. This flood came 88 years after the infamous Great Flood of that killed more than 2, people in Johnstown. As they had in the first flood, the dams Alton Coleman and Debra Brown are apprehended in Evanston, Illinois, after a particularly vicious two-month crime spree that left eight people dead and many more injured.
President Harry S. Truman institutes a military draft with a proclamation calling for nearly 10 million men to register for military service within the next two months. Following World War II, the On July 20, , Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.
High-ranking German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die. He was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts, and assassination was the only way to stop Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Art, Literature, and Film History.
Native American History. Space Exploration. Sign Up. Westward Expansion. One of the pure joys of being on the Moon was our somewhat light-footed mobility," Aldrin wrote in his book. Following the death of Armstrong in and Collins in , Aldrin is not the last surviving crew member of the Apollo 11 mission. Share Via. By hindustantimes. Astronaut poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity EVA on the lunar surface. NASA Here are some quotes by the astronauts from past briefings and interviews as they describe the "lunatic" experience": "I was surprised by the apparent closeness of the horizon," Armstrong said after mission while describing his experience, as per an AFP report.
Image source: NASA Armstrong said that he was "absolutely dumbfounded" when he "shut the rocket engine off and the particles that were going out radially from the bottom of the engine fell all the way out over the horizon. Earth rising over the Moon's horizon was taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
The lunar terrain pictured is in the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside. Footstep of Buzz Aldrin on Moon. Neil Armstrong working inside the module. With inputs from agencies. At GET, the LM descent engine was started for the last time and burned until touchdown on the lunar surface. Eagle landed on the Moon hr, 45 min and 40 sec after launch.
Immediately after landing on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin prepared the LM for liftoff as a contingency measure. Following the meal, a scheduled sleep period was postponed at the astronauts' request, and the astronauts began preparations for descent to the lunar surface. Astronaut Armstrong emerged from the spacecraft first. While descending, he released the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly MESA on which the surface television camera was stowed, and the camera recorded humankind's first step on the Moon at GET pictured at left.
A sample of lunar surface material was collected and stowed to assure that, if a contingency required an early end to the planned surface activities, samples of lunar surface material would be returned to Earth. Astronaut Aldrin subsequently descended to the lunar surface.
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