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Article: Video: OMEGA and the Lunar Pioneers.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- July 15, 2009
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It is one of the defining events in history: on the 21st of July 1969 at 02:56:20 GMT, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon and was joined a few minutes later by Buzz Aldrin. For a brief moment in time, the Apollo 11 mission united people from all over the world in a way that nothing else ever had. Everyone of a certain age remembers exactly where they were when they heard the words, "The Eagle has landed."
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The era of lunar exploration was short: in the forty months which followed, ten more astronauts would walk on the Moon and then ... manned exploration of celestial ...