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Tranquility Base. Tranquility Base ( Latin: Statio Tranquillitatis) is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle at approximately 20:17:40 UTC.
Apollo 12 →. Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on ...
The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges, and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. Based on the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins , the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War .
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor . Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical ...
The Eagle Has Landed (novel) The Eagle Has Landed. (novel) The Eagle Has Landed is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1975. [1] It was quickly adapted into a British film of the same name, released in 1976.
The Eagle Has Flown is a book by Jack Higgins, first published in 1991. It is a sequel to The Eagle Has Landed. [1] [2] [3] Plot summary.
Thomas Bergersen's 2021 album Humanity, Chapter IV contains the song "Apollo", which includes two voiceover clips from President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech and the mission's countdown sequence, as well as Neil Armstrong's "The Eagle has landed" near the end of the song.
4. Henry Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies [1] and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title.