RocketSTEM Issue #8 - July 2014 | Page 73

New York City welcomes Apollo 11 crewmen in a showering of ticker tape in a parade termed as the largest in the city’s history on Aug. 13, 1969. astronauts at Buckingham Palace in Great Britian during the astronauts’ world tour in 1970. The Apollo 11 crew is greeted by Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center upon the astronanuts’ release from quarantine on August 19, 1969. www.RocketSTEM .org 71 71