{"id":3647,"date":"2009-07-20T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:33:43","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-the-1st-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"40th Anniversary of the 1st Moon Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.&#8221; <!--more--> At 20:17 UTC on July 20, 1969 the lunar module known as Eagle landed on the surface of the Earth&#8217;s Moon. At 02:56 UTC, July 21 Neil Armstrong began to climb down the ladder towards humankind&#8217;s first footfall on extraterrestrial ground.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the home planet, earthlings paid 6 cents for a first-class postage stamp, 35 cents for a gallon of gas, $1.10 for a gallon of milk; the New York Times bestseller list included <em>The Godfather<\/em>, <em>The Andromeda Strain<\/em>, and <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em>; and at least some GAPAs were Muser age.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage broadcasts can be found on YouTube, Spacevidcast, and elsewhere. For a real-time interactive reconstruction of the event, complete with full audio, see <a href=\"http:\/\/wechoosethemoon.org\/#\">We Choose the Moon<\/a>, presented by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. (Note that the page takes awhile for initial loading. After completion of the mission, the site will be viewable at your own pace.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}