Full Text of SR0277 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from Cape | 3 | | Kennedy on July 16, 1969 and was the first manned mission to | 4 | | land on the Moon; the first steps by humans on another | 5 | | celestial body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on | 6 | | July 20, 1969; Apollo 11 achieved its primary mission, | 7 | | performing a manned lunar landing and returning safely to | 8 | | Earth; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Photographs taken from lunar orbit provided broad | 10 | | views for the study of regional lunar geology; the planned | 11 | | sequence of activities included deployment of a Solar Wind | 12 | | Composition (SWC) experiment, collection of a larger sample of | 13 | | lunar material, panoramic photographs of the region near the | 14 | | landing site and the lunar horizon, close-up photographs of | 15 | | in-place lunar surface material, deployment of a Laser-Ranging | 16 | | Retroflector (LRRR) and a Passive Seismic Experiment Package | 17 | | (PSEP), and collection of two core-tube samples of the lunar | 18 | | surface; the astronauts returned to Earth with the first | 19 | | samples from another planetary body; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The Apollo 11 mission carried to the moon American | 21 | | flags, the flags of the 50 states, including Illinois, and the | 22 | | District of Columbia, the flags of the U.S. Territories, the | 23 | | United Nations, and other nations; a plaque with the signatures |
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| 1 | | of President Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, | 2 | | and Buzz Aldrin was affixed to the leg of the lunar landing; | 3 | | the plaque bears two images of the Earth and the inscription, | 4 | | "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon | 5 | | July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind"; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and | 7 | | Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon while Command | 8 | | Module Pilot Michael Collins orbited above them; Commander | 9 | | Armstrong was the first to walk on the surface of the moon, and | 10 | | when he took his first footstep, he declared that it was "one | 11 | | small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind", a famous | 12 | | line that has inspired many and has passed into history; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The lunar landing program was the culmination of | 14 | | decades of work by hundreds of thousands of people working | 15 | | across dozens of science, technology, and engineering | 16 | | disciplines; it has been estimated that over 400,000 engineers, | 17 | | scientists, and technicians contributed to the moon landing | 18 | | mission; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, In 1973, the total cost of the Apollo program | 20 | | reported to Congress was $25.4 billion, approximately $183 | 21 | | billion in today's terms, which was paid for by American | 22 | | taxpayers; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Apollo 11 paved the way for the Apollo lunar | 2 | | landing missions to follow; therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare July 20, | 5 | | 2019 Apollo 11 Day in the State of Illinois to commemorate the | 6 | | 50 year anniversary of the United States' first manned lunar | 7 | | landing and return.
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