Capping a week of celebrations over the historic Apollo 11 mission, Vice Preside...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Capping a week of celebrations over the historic Apollo 11 mission, Vice President Mike Pence joined astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Saturday at the launch pad in Florida that sent the moonwalker and his two crew mates to space for humankind’s first steps on the lunar surface 50 years ago.
Armstrong, the first man on the moon, died in 2012 at age 82. Collins, the command module pilot who stayed in lunar orbit while Aldrin and Armstrong hopped around the lunar surface collecting samples, did not attend the ceremony. Aldrin is 89 and Collins 88. “The Orion is in the same cell as where Apollo was stacked 50 years ago. So we’ve come full circle,” said Glenn Chin, deputy manager at the Orion productions operations office.
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