Neil Armstrong next to a X-15-3 plane at Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards after a research flight in 1960
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/NASA / HANDOUT Apollo 11's lift-off at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 16 July 1969
© EPA/NASA FILES Add to lightbox Add to basket US astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., descends the steps of the Lunar Module as he prepares to walk on the moon
© EPA/NASA FILES Neil Armstrong working at the base of the lunar module on the moon
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/NASA / HO Neil Armstrong inside the lunar module after his historic walk
© ITAR-TASS/EPA/NASA / HO The three astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific ocean
© NASA They were picked up by the USS Hornet
© NASA The crew were kept in a 18-day quarantine to ensure that they had not picked up any infections or diseases from the Moon. Photo: astronauts in their quarantine van, with their wives upon arrival at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas
© EPA/NASA / HO After the quarantine, the crew were feted across the United States and around the world
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