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Ambala, Wednesday, July 23, 1969

SPACE HEROES ON WAY BACK TO EARTH



HOUSTON, July 22 (Reuter, AP)—The Apollo-11 astronauts slept soundly today as their spacecraft rapidly carried them and the valuable cargo of lunar rocks and soil away from the barren moon they conquered and back towards earth. Neil Armstrong and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, who walked on the moon, and Colonel Michael Collins, who kept their mother ship working to perfection overhead, were sleeping undisturbed by mission controllers who kept a close watch on their ship’s system. The tired spacemen turned in about 1.15 p.m. (IST) today after blasting the command ship Columbia out of moon orbit, ending some 59 hours, 30 minutes of circling the moon.

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