Man on the Moon : Meeting the other land!

As the largest object in the night sky, the Moon has held a fascination for man since the earliest times. It was not until the late 1960s, however, that the technology was developed to send a man
to the Moon.

Apollo 13
On 11 April 1970 the third Apollo mission. Apollo 13, blasted off and started its journey to the Moon. However, halfway there disaster struck. A big explosion on-board the spacecraft left the three
astronauts with little air or power. Landing on the Moon was out of the question. The problem now
was devising a way to get the crew back to Earth. To save energy. they turned the heating off and
traveled in the cramped Lunar Module. They had to go round the Moon before they could swing back to Earth, but eventually they landed safely on 17 April.p

Neil Armstrong
Before becoming an astronaut. Neil Armstrong flew over 78 combat missions over Korea as a Navy fighter pilot, then joined NASA as a civilian test pilot. He was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1962 and piloted the Gemini 8 mission. launched in 1 966. Named commander for the Apollo 12 mission, he was the first to step onto the Moon’s surface.

Amazing!
Even though only 12 people have walked on the Moon, 24 people have actually traveled to it.