6. Nixon Was Involved In The First-Ever Telephone Conversation From Space... Alongwith Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two men to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, President Nixon became involved in the first-ever telephone conversation from space. The three-man Apollo 11 crew - Michael Collins, the third member of the mission, piloted the space craft in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon - had beaten the USSR and ensured the USA had put a man on the moon within 10 years as President John F Kennedy had promised earlier that decade. Nixon referred to the telephone conversation as "the most historic phone call ever made from the White House".
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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two men to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, President Nixon became involved in the first-ever telephone conversation from space. The three-man Apollo 11 crew - Michael Collins, the third member of the mission, piloted the space craft in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon - had beaten the USSR and ensured the USA had put a man on the moon within 10 years as President John F Kennedy had promised earlier that decade. Nixon referred to the telephone conversation as "the most historic phone call ever made from the White House".