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Apollo 11 carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface while Michael Collins remained in orbit. The brief discussion celebrates the mission as a major engineering achievement and humanity’s first landing on another celestial body.

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38:08internet. That's right. 1969 is a very big year because we also have the Apollo 11 moon landing. >> Yes. What else is there to say? We put a man on the moon. >> Moon. >> Um Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin with Michael Collins in tow around the moon. It completed this historic voy voyage watched by millions. It's a spectacular engineering triumph for all of humanity. Um, and it marked humanity's first step on another celestial body. There's nothing much more to say. >> Nothing more to say. Nothing more to say. We are moving into the 70s. Psychedelic.

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