The day we were ‘alunizados’ – La Rioja

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It seems like yesterday, but it’s been 45 years this July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong said those words that would go down in history and that history. A word that the first man to set foot first on the moon were spoken. The crew consists of Commander Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins, the first two landed on the lunar surface, while the third remained in orbit above them, on board the space shuttle Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon four days after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as thousands of spectators were witnesses to this fact, thanks to the live broadcast on television worldwide.

tread Neil Armstrong on the moon.

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That moment of history meant the triumph of the space race in the United States over the former USSR, so far won by a landslide. The Soviets were the first artificial satellite Sputnik launch with two temperature gauges and one electron (the October 4, 1957). They were also the first to carry out the journey of a living space, the dog Laika, and also ahead of all the first spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became orbit for 108 minutes total (the April 12, 1961).

Perhaps for these reasons, the first man on the moon has meant that from that day to today, 45 years later, there has been time for all kinds of theories about the veracity or otherwise of the ‘small step’ Neil Armstrong. There have been many experts who have defended to the hilt the authenticity of the ‘moon walk’ to the attacks of the disbelievers who have not ceased to investigate for its truth. Just an American writer and English were the first to cast doubt on the veracity of the lunar voyage. The first, Bill Kaysing did in his ‘Never went to the moon?’, While the second, the photo expert David Percy, we raised doubts in the documentary ‘What happened on the Moon?’, Where it says questioned the photographs were made public of the mission of Apollo 11.

The ondenado flag

Perhaps one of the most disputed photographs of the story is that of the American flag on the lunar surface. In the picture the flag waving is observed, as if the wind moved, a situation to which the conspiracy advocates cling. Meanwhile, to ensure the veracity of the ‘moon walk’ explain these folds by the fact that the flag was folded during the trip, having wrinkles that could give the false impression of rippling. The different shades of the objects that were on the moon (stones, own 11 and Apollo astronauts) were also some tracks that questioned the authenticity of the ‘moon walk’.

After ‘this is a small step for man ‘came five other subsequent missions conducted landings until December 1972. The last one was Eugene Cernan aboard the Apollo 17 and since then no human has to make their mark on the surface selenite . Come or not the man on the moon, the truth is that those images fascinated and continue to fascinate everyone.