Apollo 11 splashes down in Pacific - 50 years ago today

I missed posting this by a half-hour, but at 11:50am CDT, exactly fifty years ago, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ending what can arguably be called the greatest journey and/or engineering achievement of all time!

And at 12:53pm CDT, fifty years ago, the helicopter carrying Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong landed on the USS Hornet.

When all the history books have been written, millennia from now... this achievement will have passed the test of time.

Less than a decade after JFK set the goal, thousands of engineers, scientists, fabricators, electricians, seamstresses, and other workers in Houston, New Orleans, Huntsville, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Titusville, Bethpage NY, Downey CA and numerous other locations, who had combined their mastery of orbital physics, rocketry, spacecraft design, aerospace, aluminum welding, sewing, computer design/programming and dozens of other disciplines... witnessed the end of a journey to achieve a goal dreamed about for many, many centuries!