"We want to make sure that NASA is going to be there for them when they want to take their journey. [102] The closeout crew sealed the hatch, and the cabin was purged and pressurized. In July 2013, a conservator discovered a serial number under the rust on one of the engines raised from the Atlantic, which NASA confirmed was from Apollo 11. 1969 … $19.25 shipping. The computer, rather than almost forcing an abort, prevented an abort. Once outside, he lowers a small drawbridge that holds a TV camera. [228], For 40 years Armstrong's and Aldrin's space suits were displayed in the museum's Apollo to the Moon exhibit,[229] until it permanently closed on December 3, 2018, to be replaced by a new gallery which was scheduled to open in 2022. [251] From July 16 to 24, 2009, NASA streamed the original mission audio on its website in real time 40 years to the minute after the events occurred. "[195], After Nixon departed, Hornet was brought alongside the 5-short-ton (4.5 t) Columbia, which was lifted aboard by the ship's crane, placed on a dolly and moved next to the MQF. [67] The design was rejected. [71], After the crew of Apollo 10 named their spacecraft Charlie Brown and Snoopy, assistant manager for public affairs Julian Scheer wrote to George M. Low, the Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office at the MSC, to suggest the Apollo 11 crew be less flippant in naming their craft. [5] At 17:44:00 Eagle separated from Columbia. Or it could have been the result of Eagle's pirouette maneuver.[113][114]. Along with a technician, he helped Armstrong into the left hand couch at 06:54. [210] One possible explanation was the shift in complexity. [83] Five sites were considered: Sites 1 and 2 were in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis); Site 3 was in the Central Bay (Sinus Medii); and Sites 4 and 5 were in the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum). Armstrong then jumped onto the ladder's third rung, and climbed into the LM. Another is that Kennedy's goal of landing humans on the Moon had already been accomplished. [148] Twelve minutes after the sample was collected,[143] he removed the TV camera from the MESA and made a panoramic sweep, then mounted it on a tripod. Make sure this fits by entering your model number. We're breathing again. 4.9 out of 5 stars 19 ratings. [49] Lovell took his place on the Apollo 8 crew, and when Collins recovered he joined Armstrong's crew as CMP. "[126], ACA was the Attitude Control Assembly—the LM's control stick. A new location was selected 215 nautical miles (398 km) northeast. Based on a true story and starring Sam Neill and Patrick Warburton. The final site selection was based on seven criteria: The requirement for the Sun angle was particularly restrictive, limiting the launch date to one day per month. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! [198] On August 10, 1969, the Interagency Committee on Back Contamination met in Atlanta and lifted the quarantine on the astronauts, on those who had joined them in quarantine (NASA physician William Carpentier and MQF project engineer John Hirasaki),[199] and on Columbia itself. All have subsequently been found on Earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one: one in their pride in what you have done, and one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. Lunar dust kicked up by the LM's engine began to impair his ability to determine the spacecraft's motion. [46], The initial crew assignment of Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Buzz Aldrin on the backup crew for Apollo 9 was officially announced on November 20, 1967. When later asked about his quote, Armstrong said he believed he said "for a man", and subsequent printed versions of the quote included the "a" in square brackets. At the time the Soviet Union was attempting to retrieve lunar samples robotically. A crewed mission to the Moon would serve this purpose. Millions more around the world listened to radio broadcasts. The Apollo 11 lunar sample displays were given out as goodwill gifts by Nixon in 1970. "[172], This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more, still, than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. Inside Mission Control Center, computer engineer Jack Garman told Guidance Officer Steve Bales it was safe to continue the descent, and this was relayed to the crew. [125] Aldrin immediately said "Okay, engine stop. [19] Nearly a month later, on May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, completing a 15-minute suborbital journey. They then pressurized the LM and settled down to sleep. Five minutes into the descent burn, and 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above the surface of the Moon, the LM guidance computer (LGC) distracted the crew with the first of several unexpected 1201 and 1202 program alarms. Truman’s action came during increasing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union. In a conventional entry, P64 was followed by P67. [56], By the normal crew rotation in place during Apollo, Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise were scheduled to fly on Apollo 14 after backing up for Apollo 11. He thought Lovell deserved to command his own mission (eventually Apollo 13). [128] Apollo 11 landed with less fuel than most subsequent missions, and the astronauts encountered a premature low fuel warning. Her face and arms began to swell. Actually, the computer was programmed to do more than recognize error conditions. This was later found to be the result of greater propellant 'slosh' than expected, uncovering a fuel sensor. [149], The astronauts planted the Lunar Flag Assembly containing a flag of the United States on the lunar surface, in clear view of the TV camera. The extra spurious cycle stealing, as the rendezvous radar updated an involuntary counter, caused the computer alarms. While this was enough for mission planners to make their decision, Aldrin and Armstrong were left in the dark on the decision until late spring. The third member of the crew, Michael Collins, remained in lunar orbit. It demonstrated that the Soviet Union had the capability to deliver nuclear weapons over intercontinental distances, and challenged American claims of military, economic and technological superiority. For Apollo, a third crew of astronauts was added, known as the support crew. [248][249] The camera is currently on display at the National Air and Space Museum. [205], This celebration began a 38-day world tour that brought the astronauts to 22 foreign countries and included visits with the leaders of many countries. This was observed by the helicopters. Now 107 feet (33 m) above the surface, Armstrong knew their propellant supply was dwindling and was determined to land at the first possible landing site. [243][244], The Passive Seismic Experiment ran until the command uplink failed on August 25, 1969. While Apollo 11 sparked the interest of the world, the follow-on Apollo missions did not hold the interest of the nation. The rice-sized particles were four small pieces of Moon soil weighing about 50 mg and were enveloped in a clear acrylic button about as big as a United States half dollar coin. Hornet was then at her home port of Long Beach, California. Apollo 11 - Official First Day Cover With Gold Kapton Foil FLOWN To The Moon. Loose equipment from the spacecraft remained in isolation until the lunar samples were released for study. [66], The Apollo 11 mission emblem was designed by Collins, who wanted a symbol for "peaceful lunar landing by the United States". [155] Then Armstrong walked 196 feet (60 m) from the LM to snap photos at the rim of Little West Crater while Aldrin collected two core samples. Now the world can watch as he backs down the ladder. READ MORE: Apollo 11 Moon Landing Timeline: From Liftoff to Splashdown, At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, with the world watching, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins aboard. Command module pilot Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. And this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. The downlink failed on December 14, 1969. [5][108] In the thirty orbits that followed, the crew saw passing views of their landing site in the southern Sea of Tranquility about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the crater Sabine D. The site was selected in part because it had been characterized as relatively flat and smooth by the automated Ranger 8 and Surveyor 5 landers and the Lunar Orbiter mapping spacecraft, and because it was unlikely to present major landing or EVA challenges. I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House. [143] Film taken from the LM ascent stage upon liftoff from the Moon reveals the American flag, planted some 25 feet (8 m) from the descent stage, whipping violently in the exhaust of the ascent stage engine. Armstrong in particular was notoriously aloof, but Collins, who considered himself a loner, confessed to rebuffing Aldrin's attempts to create a more personal relationship. [105], Saturn V AS-506 launched Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, at 13:32:00 UTC (9:32:00 EDT). [120], When Armstrong again looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was in a boulder-strewn area just north and east of a 300-foot-diameter (91 m) crater (later determined to be West crater), so he took semi-automatic control. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. At 10:39 p.m., five hours ahead of the original schedule, Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module. $17.36. Scientific value was not a consideration.[82]. [131], He then took communion privately. Aldrin shoveled 6 kilograms (13 lb) of soil into the box of rocks in order to pack them in tightly. The video was broadcast on television at the time, but most of the video recordings have been locked away for nearly 40 years. The lunar module is seen on the left. July 1969. After the LM was extracted, the combined spacecraft headed for the Moon, while the rocket stage flew on a trajectory past the Moon. As he made his way down the lunar module’s ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation. [69] After some discussion, the olive branch was moved to the talons. How Many Times Has the U.S. Landed on the Moon? A space rendezvous is an orbital maneuver in which two spacecraft navigate through space and meet up. The Apollo program was a costly and labor intensive endeavor, involving an estimated 400,000 engineers, technicians, and scientists, and costing $24 billion (close to $100 billion in today’s dollars). Attempting to stem interdepartmental conflict, Slayton told Aldrin that Armstrong would be first since he was the commander. Three astronauts were killed in the fire. [80] A landing just after dawn was chosen to limit the temperature extremes the astronauts would experience. [232][233][234], The descent stage of the LM Eagle remains on the Moon. [6] Just before the Apollo 12 flight, it was noted that Eagle was still likely to be orbiting the Moon. [107], On July 19 at 17:21:50 UTC, Apollo 11 passed behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit. [211][212], New phrases permeated into the English language. Aldrin remembered, "Of all the jobs I had to do on the Moon the one I wanted to go the smoothest was the flag raising. In 1972, Lucie Arnaz in Here's Lucy Episode 9 of Season 5 "Lucy and Jim Bailey" Lucie does the Moonwalk … [3] In the early hours of the morning, the fuel tanks of the S-II and S-IVB stages were filled with liquid hydrogen. When Apollo 11 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 9:32 a.m., July 16, 1969, it was already 9:32 p.m. of the same day in my little world located 5 miles Engine arm—off. [253] In July 2010, air-to-ground voice recordings and film footage shot in Mission Control during the Apollo 11 powered descent and landing was re-synchronized and released for the first time. Missions are ordered by launch date. Aldrin was afraid it might topple in front of TV viewers. [190] More divers attached flotation collars to stabilize the module and positioned rafts for astronaut extraction. On their recommendation, Rear Admiral Donald C. Davis, commander of Manned Spaceflight Recovery Forces, Pacific, advised NASA to change the recovery area, each man risking their careers. A special display of Armstrong's suit was unveiled for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in July 2019. Dignitaries included the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General William Westmoreland, four cabinet members, 19 state governors, 40 mayors, 60 ambassadors and 200 congressmen. [57] For Apollo 11, the support crew consisted of Ken Mattingly, Ronald Evans and Bill Pogue. Why does Rice play Texas? “Buzz” Aldrin joined him on the moon’s surface at 11:11 p.m., and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U.S. flag, ran a few simple scientific tests, and spoke with President Richard M. Nixon via Houston. The astronauts used Eagle's ascent stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Collins in the command module. Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup CMP in case Apollo 11 was delayed past its intended July launch date, at which point Anders would be unavailable. The fine soil was quite slippery. [95], The ascent stage of LM-5 Eagle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on January 8, 1969, followed by the descent stage four days later, and CSM-107 Columbia on January 23. [247] In 2015, after Armstrong died in 2012, his widow contacted the National Air and Space Museum to inform them she had found a white cloth bag in one of Armstrong's closets. The First Moonwalk It is 9:30 p.m. Houston time on July 20, 1969. Aldrin was an elder at the Webster Presbyterian Church, and his communion kit was prepared by the pastor of the church, Dean Woodruff. An estimated one million spectators watched the launch of Apollo 11 from the highways and beaches in the vicinity of the launch site. [109] It lay about 25 kilometers (16 mi) southeast of the Surveyor 5 landing site, and 68 kilometers (42 mi) southwest of Ranger 8's crash site. About two-thirds were fr… [99] Launch operations were partly automated, with 43 programs written in the ATOLL programming language. 109:24:15), referring to the mission's Ground Elapsed Time (GET),[278] based on the official launch time of July 16, 1969, 13:32:00 UTC (000:00:00 GET). [54] Aldrin and Collins described the crew as "amiable strangers". [124], A light informed Aldrin that at least one of the 67-inch (170 cm) probes hanging from Eagle's footpads had touched the surface a few moments before the landing and he said: "Contact light!" Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? [34] This design meant the spacecraft could be launched by a single Saturn V rocket that was then under development. [115][116] Margaret Hamilton, the Director of Apollo Flight Computer Programming at the MIT Charles Stark Draper Laboratory later recalled: To blame the computer for the Apollo 11 problems is like blaming the person who spots a fire and calls the fire department. Commemorate a historic milestone with this new 1969: First Moon Landing 16.5"(L) x 11.5"(W) framed piece featuring a mounted block of two 1969: First Moon Landing Forever® stamps alongside of the image of astronaut Buzz Aldrin from the stamp issuance. The moonwalk … Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. Armstrong was supposed to immediately shut the engine down, as the engineers suspected the pressure caused by the engine's own exhaust reflecting off the lunar surface could make it explode, but he forgot. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. As he got closer, now 250 feet (76 m) above the surface, he discovered his new landing site had a crater in it. All Rights Reserved. [58], The flight directors for this mission were:[60][61][62][63][64][65], Other key personnel who played important roles in the Apollo 11 mission include the following. [265], As part of the festival, a projection of the 363-foot (111 m) tall Saturn V rocket was displayed on the east face of the 555-foot (169 m) tall Washington Monument from July 16 through the 20th from 9:30 pm until 11:30 pm (EDT). I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade [1960s] is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. He described the event as "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". 43 watching. After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19. In May 1969, Apollo 10's lunar module flew to within 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) of Site 2, and reported it was acceptable. [96][97] The CSM was mated on January 29, and moved from the Operations and Checkout Building to the Vehicle Assembly Building on April 14. [168] In the 48 minutes of each orbit when he was out of radio contact with the Earth while Columbia passed round the far side of the Moon, the feeling he reported was not fear or loneliness, but rather "awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation". [224] In 1971, it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and was displayed at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, DC. "[55], The backup crew consisted of Lovell as Commander, William Anders as CMP, and Haise as LMP. As metabolic rates remained generally lower than expected for both astronauts throughout the walk, Mission Control granted the astronauts a 15-minute extension. The Apollo 11 landing is referenced in the songs "Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins" by The Byrds on the 1969 album Ballad of Easy Rider and "Coon on the Moon" by Howlin' Wolf on the 1973 album The Back Door Wolf. [162][163] According to the plan, Mission Control would "close down communications" with the LM, and a clergyman would "commend their souls to the deepest of the deep" in a public ritual likened to burial at sea. Following World War II, the ...read more, On July 20, 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him. They jettisoned Eagle before they performed the maneuvers that propelled Columbia out of the last of its 30 lunar orbits onto a trajectory back to Earth. The expense was justified by Kennedy’s 1961 mandate to beat the Soviets to the moon, and after the feat was accomplished ongoing missions lost their viability. Tom Wilson, a simulator instructor, suggested an olive branch in its beak to represent their peaceful mission. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. This was to guarantee there would be some lunar soil brought back in case an emergency required the astronauts to abandon the EVA and return to the LM. In this video we show you how to do the moonwalk like the King of Pop himself, Michael Jackson. There were three shows per night on July 19–20, with the last show on Saturday, delayed slightly so the portion where Armstrong first set foot on the Moon would happen exactly 50 years to the second after the actual event. [153][154], They deployed the EASEP, which included a passive seismic experiment package used to measure moonquakes and a retroreflector array used for the lunar laser ranging experiment. As such, Aldrin chose to refrain from directly mentioning taking communion on the Moon. Loping became the preferred method of movement. Later NASA reports mentioned that Eagle's orbit had decayed, resulting in it impacting in an "uncertain location" on the lunar surface.[171]. Dignitaries included the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General William Westmoreland, four cabinet members, 19 state governors, 40 mayors, 60 ambassadors and 200 congressmen. The crew tried a simulation in which Aldrin left the spacecraft first, but he damaged the simulator while attempting to egress. Minutes later the feed was switched to the more sensitive Parkes radio telescope in Australia. [240], The main repository for the Apollo Moon rocks is the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. [236], In March 2012 a team of specialists financed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos located the F-1 engines from the S-IC stage that launched Apollo 11 into space. This flood came 88 years after the infamous Great Flood of 1889 that killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown. Armstrong: Thank you, Mr. President. The inscription read: Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A. D. We came in peace for all mankind. Five minutes later, Collins joined him, taking up his position on the right hand couch. They made the decision to change the flight plan so the commander was the first to egress from the spacecraft. The hatch was closed again at 05:11:13. [220], After the Apollo 11 mission, officials from the Soviet Union said landing humans on the Moon was dangerous and unnecessary. On July 13, three days before Apollo 11's launch, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, which reached lunar orbit before Apollo 11. All this is possible only through the blood, sweat, and tears of a number of people ... All you see is the three of us, but beneath the surface are thousands and thousands of others, and to all of those, I would like to say, "Thank you very much. [28] When Kennedy met with Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of the Soviet Union in June 1961, he proposed making the Moon landing a joint project, but Khrushchev did not take up the offer. Armstrong is the first to wriggle out of a square hole in the Eagle. After a night on board, they would fly to Hornet in Marine One for a few hours of ceremonies. [10] Collins, alone aboard Columbia, inspected Eagle as it pirouetted before him to ensure the craft was not damaged, and that the landing gear was correctly deployed. He realized that a storm front was headed for the Apollo recovery area. Two of the Sea Kings carried divers and recovery equipment. Many of the surface activities took longer than expected, so they had to stop documenting sample collection halfway through the allotted 34 minutes. [92] Slayton told Armstrong the plan was to have him leave the spacecraft first, if he agreed. What saved the space program was that it was one of the few government programs that had achieved something great. The New + the Next The Last Laugh: How Comedy Had Enough of Self-Deprecation. Aldrin followed, describing the Moon as "magnificent desolation." And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? [121][122] Armstrong considered landing short of the boulder field so they could collect geological samples from it, but could not since their horizontal velocity was too high. [133], Preparations for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to walk on the Moon began at 23:43. (and Whitey's on the moon) While the flight plan called for Eagle to meet up with Columbia, Collins was prepared for a contingency in which he would fly Columbia down to meet Eagle. [48], There would be one change. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Throughout the descent, Aldrin called out navigation data to Armstrong, who was busy piloting Eagle. "[257] On August 7, 2009, an act of Congress awarded the three astronauts a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award in the United States. [69] When the Eisenhower dollar coin was released in 1971, the patch design provided the eagle for its reverse side. [187] Reconnaissance aircraft flying to the original splashdown location reported the conditions Brandli and Houston had predicted. Some large rocks jutted out of the dust cloud, and Armstrong focused on them during his descent so he could determine the spacecraft's speed. "[151] Nixon originally had a long speech prepared to read during the phone call, but Frank Borman, who was at the White House as a NASA liaison during Apollo 11, convinced Nixon to keep his words brief.[152]. [76] Five 0.5-pound (0.23 kg) PPKs were carried on Apollo 11: three (one for each astronaut) were stowed on Columbia before launch, and two on Eagle. [225] It was in the central Milestones of Flight exhibition hall in front of the Jefferson Drive entrance, sharing the main hall with other pioneering flight vehicles such as the Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, Bell X-1, North American X-15 and Friendship 7. (with Whitey on the moon) Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 13:32 UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. (while Whitey's on the moon)[216], Twenty percent of the world's population watched humans walk on the Moon for the first time. The Aurora shooting took place shortly after the start of a crowded midnight showing of ...read more, “Two girls for every boy!” went the immortal opening line from Jan and Dean’s “Surf City,” the song that reached the top of the U.S. pop charts on July 20, 1963. [155] In a 2010 interview, Armstrong explained that NASA limited the first moonwalk's time and distance because there was no empirical proof of how much cooling water the astronauts' PLSS backpacks would consume to handle their body heat generation while working on the Moon. While most people celebrated the accomplishment, disenfranchised Americans saw it as a symbol of the divide in America, evidenced by protesters outside of Kennedy Space Center the day before Apollo 11 launched. This proved to be an inefficient tool, and later missions preferred to carry equipment and samples up to the LM by hand. [210] The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority;[210] and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race. The astronauts arrived at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at 10:00 UTC on July 28. Instead, Collins flicked the switch on the system from automatic to manual and back to automatic again, and carried on with normal housekeeping chores, while keeping an eye on the temperature. Moon walk 1969 ‘Capricorn One’ – The Movie That Helped Shape a Conspiracy. [23][24] A widely quoted refrain from the middle portion of the speech reads as follows: There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. [35], Technologies and techniques required for Apollo were developed by Project Gemini. He cleared the crater and found another patch of level ground. [104] Racial and financial inequalities frustrated citizens who wondered why money spent on the Apollo program was not spent taking care of humans on Earth. Columbia was taken to Ford Island for deactivation, and its pyrotechnics made safe. For a skip-out re-entry, P65 and P66 were employed to handle the exit and entry parts of the skip. Special recovery equipment was also loaded, including a boilerplate command module used for training. [137] At 02:51 Armstrong began his descent to the lunar surface. [176] On reaching Pearl Harbor on July 5, Hornet embarked the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopters of HS-4, a unit which specialized in recovery of Apollo spacecraft, specialized divers of UDT Detachment Apollo, a 35-man NASA recovery team, and about 120 media representatives. [59] For Apollo 11, the CAPCOMs were: Charles Duke, Ronald Evans, Bruce McCandless II, James Lovell, William Anders, Ken Mattingly, Fred Haise, Don L. Lind, Owen K. Garriott and Harrison Schmitt. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. [3] There were several differences between Eagle and Apollo 10's LM-4 Snoopy; Eagle had a VHF radio antenna to facilitate communication with the astronauts during their EVA on the lunar surface; a lighter ascent engine; more thermal protection on the landing gear; and a package of scientific experiments known as the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP). [221] Mstislav Keldysh said in July 1969, "We are concentrating wholly on the creation of large satellite systems." Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon–July 1969 A.D–We came in peace for all mankind.”, READ MORE: 8 Little-Known Facts About the Moon Landing. That of Apollo 11 landed with less fuel than most subsequent missions, and its opportunity peaceful., turning around, and another portion was angered by it. [ 82 ] more training time special on! 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