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How a Nottingham engineer got a union jack on the Moon | How a Nottingham engineer got a union jack on the Moon |
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A British engineer has revealed for the first time how he got a union jack on the Moon. | A British engineer has revealed for the first time how he got a union jack on the Moon. |
Keith Wright, from Nottingham, worked for Nasa during Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic Apollo 11 landing on 16 July 1969. | Keith Wright, from Nottingham, worked for Nasa during Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic Apollo 11 landing on 16 July 1969. |
Mr Wright said he worked with scientific equipment, which he knew would be left on the Moon. | Mr Wright said he worked with scientific equipment, which he knew would be left on the Moon. |
He told The One Show that along with his signature, he sketched the UK's flag on part of a solar panel. | |
Mr Wright told presenter Carol Vorderman he left the penned tribute on the bracket of a solar-panelled piece of equipment. | |
He was employed by the de Havilland engine company to work on the Blue Streak rocket, ahead of moving to the US in 1967. | |
At the Kennedy Space Centre Mr Wright worked as an engineer on equipment the crew would be leaving on the Moon. | At the Kennedy Space Centre Mr Wright worked as an engineer on equipment the crew would be leaving on the Moon. |
"We had Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin come to our facility and we ran through the experiments employment that they would do on the Moon," he said. | "We had Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin come to our facility and we ran through the experiments employment that they would do on the Moon," he said. |
"Neil was very relaxed and quite jokey, we were concentrating so hard that it almost seemed normal, but thinking about it afterwards I did get their signatures." | |
Armstrong was watched by about 500 million people when he stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, after leaving the Eagle landing craft. | Armstrong was watched by about 500 million people when he stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, after leaving the Eagle landing craft. |
The astronaut famously said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | The astronaut famously said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." |
He was later joined on the surface by Buzz Aldrin and the pair planted the Stars and Stripes flag - before deploying the equipment with the small doodled union jack. | He was later joined on the surface by Buzz Aldrin and the pair planted the Stars and Stripes flag - before deploying the equipment with the small doodled union jack. |
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