US astronaut Neil Armstrong made the historic first step on the Moon from Apollo 11's landing craft called the Eagle.

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The professor and the policeman's beers are equally symbolic, Pirko says - Red Stripe with its Jamaican pedigree, and Blue Moon striving for craft beer credibility, though it's actually made by Coors.

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In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.

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One of these, run in collaboration with the American navy, was Clementine, a craft that orbited the moon.

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