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The Space Race

Homeschool History

CHAPTER

The First Moonwalk

In July 1969 Apollo 11 launched with the whole world watching. Neil Armstrong thought that they only had a 50% chance of coming home alive but amazingly it went really well. To the general public it felt like the space race was over and getting to the moon meant that America had won. After all that excitement the Apollo 11 astronauts returned home but they then had to self-isolate in a metal trailer for three weeks to make sure that they hadn't brought back any nasty moon bacteria. The super cool space ranger Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story is named after Buzz Aldrin.

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