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Apollo 11 (AS-506) The Eagle Has Landed
Armstrong read aloud from a plaque attached to the descent stage. 'Here men from the planet Earth first
set foot on the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.' Then they planted the stars and
stripes - held out in the airless vacuum by a metal spring - putting to rest JFK's nightmare vision of a red
flag on the Moon.

C. SARZIN
PORT W ASHIN GTON
L.. I., NE W YORK

Did You Know?
Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo 11 's hydrogen gas filters didn't work, making every
drink bubbly. Urinating and defecating in zero gravity, meanwhile, had not been figured out; the latter was
so troublesome that at least one astronaut spent his entire mission on an anti-diarrhoea drug to avoid it.