Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969. Buzz Aldrin (centre) at a ceremony at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Collins, the command module pilot who stayed in lunar orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong hopped around the lunar surface collecting samples, did not attend the ceremony. "Apollo 11 is the only event in the 20th century that stands a chance of being widely remembered in the 30th century," Pence said. Trump instead repeated his interest in a NASA mission that would take astronauts directly to Mars, a vastly more challenging and costly endeavour.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 21, 2019 00:33 UTC