Post by tannis on Jul 20, 2009 5:27:06 GMT
Lunar landing July 20, 1969 20:17:40 UTC, Sea of Tranquility
Shortly after Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit the astronauts took this spectacular image of the Earth rising over the lunar limb.
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads
At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'
Hello, Earth.
Hello, Earth.
With just one hand held up high
I can blot you out,
Out of sight.
Peek-a-boo,
Peek-a-boo, little Earth.
The landing over, the astronauts leave the Moon and head back to Earth looking back to take this image.
He stood looking thru the lace
At the face on the conquered moon
Since Apollo 11 became the first lunar landing six other missions reached the Moon. Five landed and a further ten men became moonwalkers. The last moonwalk was in 1972.
And did that ancient astronaut
Just before the lift
Grab a souvenir like a weapon?
Or did he receive it, receive it,
Accept it as a gift?
Shortly after Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit the astronauts took this spectacular image of the Earth rising over the lunar limb.
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads
At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'
Hello, Earth.
Hello, Earth.
With just one hand held up high
I can blot you out,
Out of sight.
Peek-a-boo,
Peek-a-boo, little Earth.
The landing over, the astronauts leave the Moon and head back to Earth looking back to take this image.
He stood looking thru the lace
At the face on the conquered moon
Since Apollo 11 became the first lunar landing six other missions reached the Moon. Five landed and a further ten men became moonwalkers. The last moonwalk was in 1972.
And did that ancient astronaut
Just before the lift
Grab a souvenir like a weapon?
Or did he receive it, receive it,
Accept it as a gift?
