FIRST MEN ON THE MOON
Neil Alden Armstrong (b. Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA of Scottish [via Ireland] and German ancestry, on 5 August 1930), commander of the Apollo 11 mission, became the first human being to set foot on the Moon, on the Sea of Tranquillity, at 02:56 and 15 seconds GMT on 21 July 1969 (22:56 and 15 seconds EDT – Eastern Daylight Time – on 20 July 1969). He was followed out of the lunar module Eagle by Col. Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr, USAF (b. Montclair, New Jersey, USA of Swedish, Dutch and British ancestry, on 20 January 1930), while the command module Columbia piloted by Lt-Col. Michael Collins, USAF (b. Rome, Italy, of Irish and pre-Revolutionary American ancestry, on 31 October 1930) orbited above. Eagle landed at 20:17 and 42 seconds GMT on 20…