Gallery: Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch President Nixon Dial the Moon in 1969
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President Nixon dials astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin after they've landed on the moon in July 1969. *Image: NASA.*
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Buzz Aldrin and the Eagle Lunar Module on the surface of the moon.
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Buzz Aldrin moonwalks.
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The Apollo 11 crew wear biological isolation garments to protect humanity from alien germs.
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The Apollo 11 astronauts meet Nixon in person -- sort of.
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From left to right, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Richard Nixon.
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A laugh shared with the President.
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And a prayer with the President.
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The Apollo 11 crew inside their mobile quarantine facility, which they called home for three weeks.
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The inhabited mobile quarantine facility awaits to be loaded into an Air Force C-141 before being flown to Texas.
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The *Hornet‘s* crane plucked the Apollo capsule from the ocean, once the astronauts made it out safely.
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The Apollo 11 crew spent 21 days in a Mobile Quarantine Facility, like this one. The Apollo 11 MQF is in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The one pictured above is on the *USS Hornet*. It's the only one of the four built that visitors are allowed to set foot in.
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The *USS Hornet* picked up the Apollo 11 astronauts after they splashed down off the coast of Honolulu more than 40 years ago. The ship is now stationed in Alameda, California.
