Apollo 11 - Man's First Moon Walk
Jan. 01, 1969 - AMERICA NAMES THE FIRST MEN WHO WILL LAND ON THE MOON. The three Apollo-11 astronauts chosen to make the first landing on the moon, planned for mid-July, were named in Washington last night. All three have made previous space flights, and each man is 38-years-old. They are NEIL A. AMSTRONG, a civilian employee of NASA, who is designated flight commander, Air Force Lieut-Col, MICHAEL COLLINS, the command pilot, and Air Force Colonel, EDWIN E. ALDRIN, who is to pilot the lunar module which will make the actual moon landing. ARMSTRONG and ALDRIN are the two astronauts chosen to explore the lunar surface, while COLLINS remains in lunar orbit 69 miles above them inside Aopllo-11- a spaceship similar to Apollo-8 which orbited the moon last month. PHOTO SHOWS: The three Apollo-11 astronauts chosen to make the first moon landing (Top to Bottom) EDWIN E. ALDRIN, MICHAEL COLLINS and NEIL ARMSTRONG. On right a photograph of the moon's Sea of Tranquility taken from Apollo-8 spacecraft last month. It is a view toward the north-west and included the Cauchy Scarp in foreground and rills in background, with the Cauchy Crater between them
