{"id":123,"date":"2011-06-13T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alecbartos.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-02-12T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:33:46","slug":"apollo-11-40th-anniversary-romania-2009-stamp-issue-design-alec-bartos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alecbartos.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 – 40th anniversary Romania 2009 stamp issue – design Alec Bartos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The man\u2019s dream of flying has always existed\u2026 And also since then there existed the dream of the earthling of reaching the Moon \u2026
\nThe first person who wrote about the flight of some people on the Moon was Jules Verne in his novel From Earth to the Moon.
\nAnd those who made this dream become true were the Americans, by their Apollo program, carried out between the years 1961 and 1972.
\nThe Apollo program began with a series of tests of the carrier rockets from the Saturn series, reaching to piloted space flights, with human crew, around the Moon. As a result of the announcement of the president J.F. Kennedy, in 1961, that USA will send a human crew on the Moon and until the end of the \u00b460, the program has been radically modified for this purpose.
\nFor 8 years, the missions preparing the landing on the moon were carried out in an accelerated rhythm, even after the failure of the Apollo 1 test on the ground, on the launching platform, when the first victims among the astronauts were registered.
\nApollo 11 was the first mission with human crew which landed on the Moon, the 5th flight with human crew and it has been the 3rd trip to the Moon.
\nA Saturn V rocket launched the Apollo 11 ship, having on board crew made of Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., from the Kennedy Space Centre, on July 16th 1969. The control module had the name of Columbia and the lunar module, Eagle, the eagle being the symbol of the United States.
\nOn July 20th, historical day for the earthlings, Neil Armstrong being the first man who stepped on\u00a0 another celestial body said: \u201cThat\u2019s one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind\u201d. A few minutes later he was followed on the lunar ground by his mission colleague, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.
\nAfter this cosmic flight, other 10 people have stepped on the Moon until the end of the Apollo program, the last mission being Apollo 17.<\/p>\n

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