Bangla Hunt/ Pallab Ghosh: Many are not even aware that July 20th marks a very special day in history especially for those who love to follow astronomy or space studies. This day in 1969 around 4:18 pm US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had touched the surface of the moon with their lunar module ‘Eagle’. A new history was made and the entire country was astonished to hear that finally, man has landed on the moon.
50-long-years have passed to this historic event. In fact, India too has created history by sending astronauts in the space and now planning to send an Indian astronaut on the moon.
A special programme has been designed to celebrate this gala event at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The entire initiative has been taken by NASA which will also organize an exhibition to commemorate the historic event.
US Vice President Mike Pence will deliver a speech from the Kennedy Space Center, from where Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins, the third crew member took off.
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