Apollo 11 lunar landing Eye Witness

DEFINING MOMENT MOON LANDING, 20 JULY 1969 Bringing an end to the Space Race, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the Moon, achieving something many thought would never be possible. JACK GARMAN John R ‘Jack’ Garman is a computer engineer who worked at NASA from 1966 to 2000. In 1969 he was a key figure in the Apollo 11 lunar landing, responsible for overseeing the primitive computer on-board the spacecraft. Now retired, Garman had a long and fruitful career at NASA, although perhaps no mission was as important as Apollo 11. “It was a very euphoric kind of atmosphere; by jove, we actually did it, they actually landed on the Moon” At 8.18pm (GMT) on 20 July 1969, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the…

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