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NASA Celebrating Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module, Eagle, during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, mission commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, stands on the surface of the moon near the leg of the lunar module, Eagle, during the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, mission commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.

Neil Armstrong’s footsteps on the moon fifty years ago were the first and there are plans underway for others to follow. As the world marks the anniversary, NASA is busy with Artemis, the plan to return to the lunar surface. Kelsey Young, a NASA scientist, says before that happens, the space agency is about to unseal moon rocks brought back by Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins half a century ago. 

Young spoke with WAMC’s Brian Shields.

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