‘My heart raced at the landscape’s description’: Richard Isaacman

I felt sick when I learned of the Apollo 1 fire in 1967; three astronauts dead, one of whom I remembered from his Mercury flight six years earlier. When Apollo flights resumed a year-and-a-half later, it felt like a personal triumph: I was hooked on space. USA, July 17 : U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 Mission Commander, standing next to the Lunar Module "Eagle" on the moon July 20, 1969. Armstrong stepped down onto the foot of the lander and started describing the consistency of the surface before actually touching it: “The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained, as you get close to it.