Comprehension STOP Use your dictionary to find out the meaning of the bold words below.


! y THE AMERICAN STAR y BOB LEE MAN ON THE MOON THUR. JULY 24TH 1969


TODAY, THURSDAY JULY 24th, Americans celebrate the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts.


Last week, on July 16th, the colossal Saturn V rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Merritt Island, Florida. Aboard were heroic astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins. This comes just eight years after the Soviets sent the first man into space; an event which caused President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.


history books for years to come: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Moments later, Aldrin became the second man on the moon.


Buzz Aldrin on the moon


The trio travelled a quarter of a million miles to reach the coveted destination. They arrived in lunar orbit on July 19th. Once the crew had reached orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin entered the Lunar Module of the spacecraft, nicknamed ‘Eagle’, which would transport them to the moon’s surface. Collins remained in orbit overhead, manning the Command Module ‘Columbia’ that would eventually take them home.


As hundreds of millions across the globe watched


in awe, the Lunar Module undocked and safely touched down at the Sea of Tranquillity on the moon’s surface on July 20th. Upon landing, Armstrong’s voice crackled from the speakers at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston. Simply stating, “The Eagle has landed,” Armstrong uttered the first words ever spoken on the moon.


Six hours later, Armstrong climbed down the ladder of the Eagle and became the first man to walk on the moon. Once there, Armstrong proclaimed the words that are sure to be recorded in


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The men spent a total of two and a half hours exploring the lunar surface. While there, the pair deployed the first human experiments carried out outside of this planet. They also collected about twenty- two kilograms of priceless moon rocks for study on their return to Earth.


In addition to these experiments, Armstrong and Aldrin unveiled a plaque on the part of the Lunar Module that was to be discarded on the moon’s surface. “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind,” it announced. The American flag was also planted and left there as a reminder of the greatest scientific accomplishment by mankind to date.


The pair then returned to the upper part of the Lunar Module and jettisoned off the moon’s surface to rejoin Collins in the Command Module and begin their journey home. The Columbia returned to Earth today, landing in the Pacific Ocean, having completed its remarkable mission. The explorers were retrieved by a helicopter. They, along with their precious lunar samples, have been placed in quarantine until their health and safety can be confirmed.


Meanwhile, the world waits From left to right: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin


in anticipation to welcome our heroes home.


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