National Moon Day

Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 1969, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.

Checked against the record. PARTLY SOURCED, and the page says which parts. CONFIRMED at NASA's own Apollo 11 mission page: the crew of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin; launch on 16 July 1969; splashdown on 24 July 1969; the landing on 20 July 1969; and “Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.” NASA's page also dates the mission to fifty-seven years ago, which is what the page says. NOT SOURCED HERE, and listed rather than quietly kept: that Armstrong stepped off about six hours after the landing; that Aldrin followed nineteen minutes later; that the pole would only go about two inches into the ground; the West Point salute; and the estimate of six hundred million watching, or one in five people alive. Two NASA pages were opened for these and neither carries them - the mission overview gives no timings and the anniversary feature is a photographic essay. They are almost certainly right and they are the sort of detail NASA's mission reports do carry; the report itself is the route, not another search of the same two pages. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS PAGE IS. This is a national anniversary, not Huntingdon County history. That is a fine thing for a county page to post and the facts in it still have to be right, but it is worth being clear that nothing on it connects to this county, and the fact-checking effort this site can spend is better aimed at the county's own past.