Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Apollo 11/archive1

TFA blurb review[edit]

Apollo 11 was an American spaceflight mission, the first to land astronauts on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin set the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle down on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. While they were on the Moon's surface, Michael Collins flew the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit. Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. He described the event as "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit. The astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. (Full article...)

Any thoughts or edits? - Dank (push to talk) 21:47, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If all this runs on the same week, for some differentiation from Armstrong's blurb, I wouldn't quote him here. I would quote Kennedy's speech which is equally iconic and inspired this mission.

Apollo 11 was an American spaceflight mission, the first to land astronauts on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin set the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle down on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. While they were on the Moon's surface, Michael Collins flew the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit. Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. Eagle spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit. The astronauts returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, fulfilling a national goal, promoted in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, "of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." (Full article...)

@Dank: this is 1010 characters. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 03:27, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting ... we haven't had the constraint before of multiple blurbs repeating text on the same day. I'll wait until the voting is over. - Dank (push to talk) 03:33, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]