Google celebrates the arrival of the first man on the Moon with a doodle
The arrival of man on the Moon was celebrated by Google in a doodle that commemorates that 50 years ago, NASA's Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the lunar surface.
The doodle is about a video narrated by Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the Moon while his companions explored the satellite.
The video, narrated by Michael Collins, one of the astronauts and pilot of the Apollo 11 command module, tells of the project of this historic trip carried out together with Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, which took off on July 16, 1969 from the Florida Kennedy Space Center. And it landed on the Moon on July 20 of the same year.
This doodle will allow users around the world to relive the journey that took place aboard Apollo 11 for 48 hours and will help to learn little-known details of the historic mission that opened the imagination of millions of people and forged the way to a period of amazing discoveries that haven't stopped since.
Michael Collins says that once they managed to orbit the Moon, the lunar module known as Eagle on which Armstrong and Aldrin traveled, separated for 13 minutes until landing on the lunar surface, while he remained aboard the command module. From which the three astronauts returned home after completing their mission.
It was July 20, 1969, when Armstrong and Aldrin reached the surface of the Moon. As we all know, it was Neil Armstrong who first descended from the module, becoming the first human being to set foot on the Moon and making the phrase “a small step for man, a great leap for humanity” famous.
On July 25, 1969, the astronauts returned safely to Earth, ending humanity's greatest feat.
