PROMISING THE MOON

To mark 50 years since its historic arrival on the lunar surface, Omega has created a special edition of the so-called Moonwatch, writes Annie Darling

When Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module on July 20, 1969, hundreds of millions of people around the world were squinting at the grainy black-and-white images on their television sets. Once the 38-year-old commander of the historic Apollo 11 mission had descended the ladder and set the first human foot on the moon, they heard him radio back to mission control on Earth, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” After 19 minutes of tentative tests, which included assessing the firmness of the lunar surface and his ability to move about in his bulky spacesuit in the weak lunar gravity, Armstrong’s co-pilot, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, joined him. They set up a television camera, an ag up rock samples during a moonwalk that lasted just two-and-a-half hours.…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019

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