l. gordon cooper was the 3rd astronaut of the apollo 11 mission who did not go to the moon.
who was the 3rd astronaut of the apollo 11 mission who did not go to the moon?
l. gordon cooper
the apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the moon. launched on july 16, 1969, the third lunar mission of nasa's apollo program was crewed by commander neil a. armstrong, command module pilot michael collins, and lunar module pilot edwin e. 'buzz' aldrin, jr. on july 20, armstrong and aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, while collins orbited in the command module. the apollo 11 mission reached president john f. kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon's surface by the end of the 1960s.
u.s. space exploration history on u.s. stamps
in 1962, calle was among the first group selected to participate in the nasa art program. calle contributed a pair of complementary five-cent stamps issued in 1967 as part of the accomplishments in space commemorative issue, with the right stamp showing the gemini 4 space capsule with the earth's horizon as a backdrop, while the left stamp showed astronaut ed white making the first american spacewalk. his best-known stamp was designed to mark the first manned moon landing and was issued in september 1969, showing an astronaut stepping out onto the surface of the moon. the apollo 11 crew carried with them a die proof of calle's moon-landing stamp, which was hand canceled by the astronauts while on the mission. calle had been given exclusive access to be with the astronauts on july 16, 1969, while they made their final preparations for the apollo 11 mission. the sketches he made based on his experiences that day have been displayed at the national air and space museum and at the national gallery of art. together with his son chris, calle returned to the subject of space exploration with a pair of stamps issued in 1994 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission and the first manned moon landing.
paul calle