Obama recalls Apollo 11 splashdown in Hawaii – while he lived in Indonesia
Posted: July 22, 2009
9:35 pm Eastern
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 Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin salutes U.S. flag on moon, July 20, 1969 |
On this week's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing,
President Obama praised the pioneering American astronauts and recalled
his own childhood memories in Hawaii of NASA capsules splashing down in the Pacific.
But Houston, we have a problem. The president actually lived in Indonesia in 1969.
Obama met with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael
Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin in the Oval Office July 20 to
commemorate the historic landing.
He praised the men for their "heroism, calm under pressure" and "grace."
"I think that all of us recall the moment in which mankind
finally was untethered from this planet and was able to explore the
stars; the moment in which we had one of our own step on the moon and
leave that imprint that is there to this day," the president said. MORE>>>>>>>>