The moon landing and the walk – La Provincia

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CHAPTER KENNEDY, 21. – The first impression of a human being on the Moon was that of the left foot of Neil Armstrong, the 38-year-old American astronaut who, after a 370,000-kilometer journey, descended on the lunar surface last night, to the eyes of hundreds of millions of viewers around the world. At that time, in the United States, there was exactly 22.5670 "(which corresponds to 436" 20 "in Italy). "It's a small step for man, but a giant step for mankind," Armstrong said as soon as he put his feet on the surface covered with dust and rocks. At those first words of Armstrong, he echoed, twenty minutes later, to Armstrong 's flying companion, Edwin Aldrin, who, as soon as he got off the moon, screamed at him. : "What a magnificent desolation. The panorama offered to the two astronauts, first witnesses of a new world beyond the narrow confines of the Earth, was that of a rocky desert, of almost uniform color, but punctuated here and there from rocks to veins deep. Aldrin even came to identify a reddish rock, which experts on Earth immediately called biotite.

Magnificent Desolation
America's pride for this extraordinary conquest was immediately interpreted by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, who, in a radio-television message conveyed to astronauts and of them returned to the earth immediately, he said: "Thanks to your business, the sky has become part of our world of men". "Thank you, Mr. President," was the response of the Armstrong Expedition Commander, "it is a great honor and a privilege to be here, as representatives not only of the United States, but also peaceful men of all nations, animated by interest and curiosity, men inspired by a vision of the future ".