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4JU ASTRONAUTS NEIL APJttSTRONG and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. deploy flag on surface of moon shortly after they became the first men from Earth to set foot on the moon. The lunar md-ni- e lander is shown in background. The third member of the

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trio, Michael Collins, stayed aloft is the command mudule which was to dock with the lunar lander this afternoon prior to journey home. (Heraid-UP- I Telepbotos) Apollo 11

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Armstrong reported 17 minutes after their moonship stirred the' lunar dust with its rocket engine and roared up from ' the Sea of Tranquillity. The two American astronauts spent 2 hours walking, explor ing and collecting 80 pounds of priceless lunar rocks. "Beautiful. . .Beautiful," Ald rin said, as the spacecraft skimmed at more than 1,000 m.p.h, over the craters and boulders around the flat landing field.

THEY DID IT! This formal portrait was taken before America'! three triumphant left on the historic Apollo 11 moon mission. Posed before artist's conception of moon s. re, from left, Mission Commander Neil Armstrong; Command Module Pilot Michael and Lunar Module Fiiot Edwin Aldrin. (Hera!d-LT- I Telcphoto)

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Behind they left the moon," the earth and history forever changed. Aldrin and Armstrong were given a long rest after taking the first human steps on the moon, planting the American By Untied Press International d surface Americans rubbed moon dust flag in the out of th?ir. eyes today and By United Press International Tokyo and Moscow, men and Even though hundreds of where their Eagle spaceship braced for one more cliff- - Prime Minister Hilmar women to man's millions heard the Apollo 11 touched down late Sunday and reacted their astronauts' Baunsgaard of Denmark said it landing on the moon with landing on radio or saw it on gathering priceless moon nug hanger : takeoff for home. for millions all over the world astonishment and praise. television nearly a quarter of gets. Many said they could hardly the earth's people did not. Ground controllers awakened Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin today: "It's almost too much in Communist China told its 700 Collins at 10:30 a.m. to start E., Aldrin on the moon, with one night!" In London and believe their eyes. million people nothing about it. the complicated Eagle liftoff Michael Collins waiting for the rendezvous Moscow television let the 1947 and operations module in lunar orbit, Eagle which will last until all three with Love" of movie "Song gave their countrymen some of Ka'therine Hepburn and Robert astronauts are reunited in the the proudest hours of their Walker run to its conclusion Columbia command ship late historv Sunday and Surday then reported Apollo as the last tonight. night. Astronaut James Lovell, comon its late newscast. item Ame-ica- 's prayers went with mander of the Apollo 11 backup Holds Up Press Run them to the alien world. They The Soviet Communist party crew, radioed his congratula continued today, waiting for newspaper bigger head tions today to Armstrong .and assurance that the moon men JODRELL BANK, England Sir Bernard Lovell, chief of lines to its gave TWO MOODS, portrayed during moon expedition. Mrs. Neil Armstrong, wife of the Apollo moonwalk. 15 moon ALdrin for their own Luna nd's Jodrell Bank the Jodrell Bank facility, said were coming back. seen by millions on television. 11 commander, laughs joyously after successful Eagle landing. Astronaut Alan Bean bites held but up orbiting spaceship Rarel had Americans felt so tracking station said Russia's the velocity of signals received its press run until it could "Thank you," Armstrong told nails tensely at Houston Space Center during descent. Bean will be lunar module pilot on unmanned Luna 15 space at the time they ceased were (Kerald-UPmuch together, with each other I Apollo 12 mission, Telephoto) carry the story of the moon him. "We wore getting a lot of to that of vehicle apparently plunged to "appropriate and with mankind. Never had landing, a newspaper practice help down there, Jim." of the moon today landing." surface the Then Aldrin radioed a dethey seen seen in the darkened at such nigh speed it could have extremely unusual in Russia. roomThe scosmonauts of their courageous scription of the dead and living quiet been severely damaged. have landed on the moon," the airless lunar landscape where such sights as came to them Pravda story said. from the moon by television JODRELL BANK, England Armstrong spent more than two Dr. Andrzei Marks, a prom hours and Aldrin nearly that from aimost a quarter million (UPI)-T- he Jodrell Bank track inent Polish scientist, said, " long hopping and jumping like miles away. ing station said there were (See SO PROUD, Page 4) ( See EPIC MOON, Page 4) The sense of togetherness indications that Russia's un Rock was so strong that more than manned Luna 15 space vehicle SPACE SPACE CENTER, Houston unbelievably eager, like kids in as they say around Armstrong's 10,000 people gathered in the landed on the moon today. CENTER, Houston A. Armstrong's sat there and a schoolroom when the lesson is hometown of Wapakoncta, Ohio, ram ana tne mua in xNew A spokesman said Luna 15 (UPI)-N- eil (UPI)-Y- ou on the heart beat fastest at the end of landed watched man step into his own a stimulus. They hopped. They he done right noble with "one York's Central Park Sunday apparently dream. The silent footfall on took their own pictures stand- small step for man one giant night to watch on three color moon's Sea of Crisis about 500 the moon walk today when he from the Sea of was working hard loadmg rock the airless moon that was the ing beside the Stars and leap for mankind." television sets as Armstrong miles He spoke it right out good climbed down to the floor of the Tranquillity where the two samples aboard the Eagle a saw You of sat and prancec1 They ages. romped, Stripes. leap h and plain, too. For a first-clas-s corner-turnin- g in the human in the elegant state of American Apollo 11 astronauts spaceship. moon. walked on the moon Sunday. Armstrong's heart rate rose WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pr- esident with Americans in recognizing gravity, invented a new dance flying man, he did well in his saga. Throng Grows Silent feature-lengt- h first television which named immediate Nixon no was of be that point to 160 beatswas There at sorts obviously what an immense feat this is. may Man left his footprints on the The throng grew silent as it show. 150 the Moscow as he Then, in a more somber tcne, to from excited confirmation and lunar the minute, hop. compared jubilant a of and sands great space, And as for mastery of flight, realized it was actually watch which so far has limited itself beats a minute just moments talked by telephone from the the Chief Executive told the And it must be said that after portion of the world sat and no ing an American doing what to announcing the takeoff last before the lunar module White House with Apollo 11 astronauts their achievement with you as the a good deal of wonderment on you began to realize as you man watched na-- i ever done. There was looked at level the a part of observers touched two on and the moon. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong made "the heavens down the absolutely Sunday many subsequent part television eye stared at the to the Apollo 11 flight terrain when he did the cheering and whistling when orbital changes. Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief and Edwin E. Aldrin shortly of man's world" and brought of a prior bootmarks of the audacity with the Armstrong was down safely, The observatory said its giant doctor of the astronauts, said after they became the first men all mankind closer together. rhetoric, panoramic shots civilian from Ohio and a colonel whether Armstrong of the watchers dish radio antenna detected a "As you talk ta us from the Armstrong's normal heart rate to set foot on the moon. from New Jersey signing in on when he planted a timid foot on television camera that you but many if rocket blast that as remained transfixed, how the minute. life 75 of Tranquillity, it inspires a culmination tell to about as were soil beats can't Sea was was "I you soil. witnessing evidently just truly foreign the register of the lunar to drop the craft out "His heart was probably proud we all are of what you us to redouble our efforts to intended known on earth, would come up of one of the greatest pieces of unbelieving. of After a million years to the occasion at hand well, piloting ever achieved. a lot slower than have done," He said. "For bring peace and tranquility to A policeman said, to no one of orbit down toward the lunar beating dreaming, guessing, wondering, surface. said a mine," "It's in Berry of the tense every American, this has to be earth," Nixon said. "For one great day mind particilar, wishing, questing in the the the Eagle's the proudest day of our lives priceless moment in the whole The moments time put spokesman during for mankind." for the impossible visit, feeling of the Russian landing at 40 landing and the astronaut's and for people all over the history of man, all the people News The HERALDinq Oval the in unknown the urge of the sky Nixon, sitting seconds after 11:50 a.m. EDT. first step onto the moon. world I am sure they too join (See HISTORIC, Page 4) a humankind had of the White .House,

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gained above, toehold on the heavens. Too Easy Those two made it seem too easy. Like Joe DiMaggio in

centerfield. The mark of the; pro. The first moon tourists were humble. They realized, with a terrible start when the President called them, what was happening to then? and to their fellow men. Who can forget the great emotion obvious in the Midwest twang of Neil Armstrong's answered he voice when President Nixon? The' tremble when he spoke of "the honor for us to be able to participate today" was that of a man in high emotional stress. M etiicrwis they were

Front Page Chronicles

Great Day for America Today was the easiest in history for editors who must make a "top story" decision. What else, of course, but the moon landing and The Daily Herald devotes its entire

front page to "America's Proudest Day." News of the ration and world which ordinarily would start on the front page today is chronicled on Page Seven Mideast War to the more ranging from the getting-hottpleasant story and picture of the new Miss Universe. But even the entire front page can't do justice to the moon story, and The Herald gives you a full page of pictures on Page Eight. An editorial and fitting cartoon on the Editorial Page round out our moon coverage. P.S. That "Moon Day, July 21, 1969'' for the dateline Is NOT a typographical error, er

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up the telephone and called the moon as any American might have wished he could. "I just can't tell you how proud we all are," he said. In the almost deserted Logan International Airport at Boston, watched soldier a young on the set his foot Armstrong moon and yelled, "unbelievable!" outside Los At Disneyland of the members Angeles, Russian track and field team the participating in British Commonwealth meet International watched the landing of the Eagle on Tranquillity Base on a (Se AMERICANS, Page 1). R

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for mankind." They were the first words of Neil A. Armstrong when he set foot on the moon Sunday. Voices from the moon: Edwin E. Aldrin, describing the surroundings: "It looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, gianularity and every yaiety. of rock yo"

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there doesn't Michael Collins, flying 70 miles much of a above in the command ship Columbia: at all." "Just keep that orbiting base Told that ground controllers ready for us up there." were smiling: desolation," Armstrong "There are two "Magnificent of them up here." were Aldrin's first words on setting foot on the moonscape. Armstrong, looking from his "Hey Neil, didn't I say we perch back at earth: "It's big and bright and would see some purple rocks. "Find beautiful." a purple rock?" .Armstrong's first words . to Armstrong asked. too

"Yep. "Hey, you're standing on a big rock now." Armstrong, responding to the world's longest long distance phone call, from President Nixon congratulating them: "Thank you, Mr. President, it's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations See SMALL STEP, Feg i ,