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May 4: East End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder, sentenced to life and are destined to die in prison. January 16: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first transfer of crew in space. The first test flight of Boeing’s revolutionary jumbo jet takes place a little over a month later.

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January 9: A prototype of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde makes its first trial flight from Bristol. This was an American victory in the space race against its ideological enemy the Soviet Union.

Given that the mission took place at the height of the Cold War, however, nobody was under any illusions about which particular outpost of mankind would benefit most.

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It took four or five attempts for the astronauts to plant the flagpole upright in the moon’s surface but once they had it positioned securely both astronauts stepped back to salute the Stars and Stripes.Īrmstrong spent two and a half hours on the moon’s surface – Aldrin slightly less – and between them they collected 44lbs of moon rock that would later prove invaluable to the 142 scientific centres around the Western world waiting to examine quantities of “moon soil”.īefore re-entering their landing craft the crew of Apollo 11 left behind a plaque, which was signed by each of the astronauts plus America’s then president Richard Nixon, bearing the message, “We came in peace for all mankind”.

It was this feature that went on to spawn myriad conspiracy theories over the years from people unaware of the above or simply not prepared to believe it, who claimed that the flag’s flutter in a wind-free atmosphere is proof that the entre moon landing was a hoax. “It measures 5ft by 3ft, is made of nylon and because there is no breeze whipping across the lunar landscape the flag is frozen permanently into a flutter with a spring-loaded wire,” reported the Daily Express. One of Armstrong’s most important tasks was to mark the US’s achievement in becoming the first country to put a man on the moon by planting its national flag on the lunar surface.

Newspaper articles on the first man on the moon