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The Apollo Moon Landing

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. They landed on the moon's surface in the lunar module Eagle after taking off from Earth. The Apollo 11 mission marked a major achievement for the United States in achieving the goal that President John F. Kennedy had declared in 1962 of landing astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade, which required significant government funding for NASA.

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The Apollo Moon Landing

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. They landed on the moon's surface in the lunar module Eagle after taking off from Earth. The Apollo 11 mission marked a major achievement for the United States in achieving the goal that President John F. Kennedy had declared in 1962 of landing astronauts on the moon by the end of the decade, which required significant government funding for NASA.

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B2 The Apollo Moon Landing LIU002

Choose the best option for each blank.

50 years ago, on July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neill


Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to
(1) _____________________ their foot on the moon. The United
States had won the space race with the Soviet Union. After
(2) _____________________ from Kennedy Space Centre in
Florida on July 16th the lunar module Eagle landed on the
moon's (3) _____________________ . Four days after the lunar
landing Apollo 11 successfully splashed down in the Pacific
Ocean. Buzz Aldrin next to the lunar
landing module.
The race to the moon began in 1962 when President John F
Kennedy (4) _____________________ that America would land a man on the moon by the end
of the decade. In the following years, the American space agency NASA received large
amounts of government (5) _____________________ in order to achieve a lunar landing.

The Apollo spacecraft consisted of the command and service module, (6) __________________
the lunar landing module that would bring two astronauts to the moon's surface and take
off again to successfully dock with the command module. A (7) _____________________
rocket, the Saturn V, was built to escape from Earth's orbit.

NASA's space programme (8) _____________________ a catastrophic setback in 1967 when


three Apollo astronauts died in a fire (9) _____________________ practicing on the ground at
Cape Kennedy.

About 600 million people around the world watched the (10) ___________________ moon
landing. Neill Armstrong's first words on the moon are among the most (11) _______________
in history: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

All in all, the Apollo programme sent 9 spacecraft to the moon in the 60s and 70s. Six of
them (12) _____________________ astronauts on the lunar surface. About 400 kilos of lunar
rock were collected and brought back to earth.

50 years after the first moon landing events all across the US have been organised to
celebrate this historic and technological (13) _____________________ .
1 lay locate set put
2 taking off to take off take off took off
3 floor level ground surface
4 spoke out declared posted published
5 income spending donating funding
6 as well as in addition such as and even
7 distinct hard strengthy powerful
8 tolerated suffered stood felt
9 through whenever while during
10 ancient historic important major
11 famous unknown decided marked
12 were landing have landed landed were landed
13 invention discovery development achievement

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