Monday, February 12, 2007

Great Explorers

One of the great explorers is Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.He was the second man to walk on the Moon.Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot on NASA's Apollo 11 mission. He and the first man on the Moon,Neil Armstrong were on the Moon for 2 hours.They were collecting rock samples and doing lunar surface experiments.His first space mission was Gemini 12 which was launched on November 11, 1966.He orbited Earth for 4 days with Command Pilot James Lovell and wrote many books about his life and his career as an astronaut.





By :Alina Lam and Ong Wei Ting

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