Why is 1969 so important

Aldrin Jr. The Lunar Module LM is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the moon. The astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar-surface camera. Some fashion shots. At left: an example from Italian Winter and Fall dresses, July 17, Right: a single-breasted overcoat of gold, yellow woolen double jersey, with an original lacing.

Original caption: "Edgartown, Massachusetts: A frogman attempts to raise a car eight hours after it plunged into a pond here with Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy behind the wheel, on July Mary Jo Kopechne, 29, was killed in the crash. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended two-month jail sentence. Original caption: "Saigon, South Vietnam: Troops of the Ninth Division pick up Viet Cong suspects for questioning in the delta area south of Saigon in the summer of Lava falls higher than Niagara Falls began to fill Alae Crater on August 5, , following a catastrophic draining on August 4.

Renewed fountaining at Mauna Ulu sent lava into Alae, starting to refill the crater. Original caption: "Lahore, Pakistan. President Richard Nixon springs down from the trunk of a limousine which carried him and Pakistani President Yahya Khan left, background in a motorcade to Government House after Nixon's arrival August 1. The Pakistani President seems to take a more cautious way down. Police wearing gas masks fire cartridges of tear gas in front of a bookmaker's shop during the Ulster riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on August 12, A wide-angle view of the audience and stage at the Woodstock music festival in New York's Catskill Mountains in August of Woodstock became a major cultural event, a festival planned for 50, attendees, but swarmed by more than ,, amplified by news coverage, a popular documentary film, and the music that became symbolic of an era.

Participants and attendees at Woodstock. The 5-year-old Adrian Cox watches Flyer model cars race around a Flyaway loop track. The Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, is pictured in at an unknown location. Hurricane Camille destroyed much of the Mississippi coastline, killing people. They beat the New York Mets during their first game in April Sesame Street debuted on television in Most of the people on board were reporters and photographers.

On March 2 in Toulouse, France, the Concorde takes its first test flight. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart on April 4. The novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo is first distributed to bookstores. Sports: The Montreal Canadiens defeat the St. Personality Quizzes. Funny Fill-In. Amazing Animals. Weird But True! Party Animals. Try This! Explore More. Space Get the scoop on all things space. Spaced Out Ever wanted to journey into space? Wondered about the Milky Way or if aliens really exist?

In , after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission , testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Then, on January 27, , tragedy struck at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when a fire broke out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket. Three astronauts were killed in the fire.

Despite the setback, NASA and its thousands of employees forged ahead, and in October , Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth and successfully tested many of the sophisticated systems needed to conduct a moon journey and landing. In December of the same year, Apollo 8 took three astronauts to the far side of the moon and back, and in March Apollo 9 tested the lunar module for the first time while in Earth orbit.

That May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission. At a. Armstrong, a year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling , miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July The next day, at p. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at p.

At p. As he made his way down the module's ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation.