From Brevard County to the Moon! An Anniverasry.
Via the Florida Historical Society:
‘Today in Florida History!
1969 – Three days after the historic launch from John F. Kennedy Kenedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.’
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This was huge event back then and even now! Our visits to the moon were few and then stopped altogether. Here was the first to get there. This was all being done to meet the goal set in 1961 by President Kennedy to have a man on the moon before the decade was out. Another day and the goal was met.
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