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20 FACTS YOU DIDN’ T KNOW ABOUT APOLLO 11

1 Neil Armstrong’s ‘one small step for man’ wasn’t small at all. He had to drop just over a metre from the foot of the Eagle’s ladder to the surface.

2 They could have been locked out. When lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong on the Moon’s surface, he had to make sure not to fully close the ’s hatch

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