Thursday, July 22, 2010

America’s Decline Forty-One Years After Apollo 11
American Heritage item by Christopher G. Adamo

This week marks the forty-first anniversary of one of America’s crowning achievements, the first manned landing on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, riding on the shoulders of thousands of engineers, technicians, and manufacturers, touched down on the Sea of Tranquility at 4:53 pm on Sunday, July 20, 1969. During the next twenty-one hours, they walked on the surface of the moon, planted “Old Glory” there, and finally lifted off the next day for their return to earth.

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