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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8322247, member: 20201&quot;]<b>First Step on the Moon</b></p><p><b>Eyewitness Medal</b></p><p><b>Sterling Silver Franklin Mint </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1474394[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1474395[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>A fairly easy to find medal, but still quite a historical one, I have a couple.</p><p>Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 9:32 am EDT and was the fifth manned mission of NASA&#039;s Apollo program.</p><p>The Ike Dollar reverse design is borrowed the Apollo 11 flight insignia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474396[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Apollo spacecraft had three parts.</p><p>A command module with a cabin for the three astronauts, which was the only part that returned to Earth.</p><p>A service module , which supported the command module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water.</p><p>A lunar module that had two stages – a descent stage for landing on the Moon, and an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit.</p><p><br /></p><p>After being sent to the Moon by the Saturn V&#039;s third stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and traveled for three days until they entered into lunar orbit.</p><p>Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into the lunar module Eagle and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. They stayed a total of about 21.5 hours on the lunar surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474398[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The astronauts used Eagle&#039;s upper stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Collins in the command module.</p><p>They jettisoned Eagle before they performed the maneuvers that blasted them out of lunar orbit on a trajectory back to Earth. They returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24 after more than eight days in space.</p><p><br /></p><p>The landing was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience.</p><p>Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy: &quot;before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As a kid, I watched a lot of NASA coverage. I was fascinated with space movies and TV shows, this was one of those events when you remember where you were that Sunday while you were watching the live TV event.</p><p>When Neil Armstrong was heard to say &quot;The Eagle has landed!&quot; that late afternoon.</p><p>Six hours later it was dark outside here on Planet Earth on the East Coast but everyone was glued to the TV while we watched as Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as</p><p><i><b>&quot;One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.&quot;</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>The moon was a 30% waxing moon visible from Earth by us.</p><p>I&#039;m sure many took a moment that day to look up and say, it&#039;s hard to believe there are men on that moon.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are skeptics, they say it was all done in Hollywood style and staged.</p><p>Those same people are fluent in speaking Klingon, I&#039;m sure.</p><p>I certainly believe they have been there and came back. What courage it must have taken.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474409[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1974 United States History Society</b></p><p><b>Aluminum Medals</b></p><p><b>Neil Armstrong</b></p><p>(From my 21 pc complete set)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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