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Above: An enthusiastic NewYorker runs up to car
carrying Apollo 11 Astronauts with three American
flags in NewYork, August 13, 1969. Waving is As-
tronaut Edwin Aldrin, right; the man gave the flags
to someone in the car. Incident occurred in mid-
town Manhattan while Astronauts were en route to
United Nations. (AP Photo)
Left: Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Mi-
chael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., are riding in
this spacecraft as it lifts off the pad at Cape Ken-
nedy, Fl., July 16, 1969.