Joan Aldrin speaks on the phone to her husband, Buzz, while he gazes out from the Apollo 11 Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard the U.S.S. (8/21)

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Joan Aldrin speaks on the phone to her husband, Buzz, while he gazes out from the Apollo 11 Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard the U.S.S.

Hornet in July 1969. The astronauts spent 21 days in quarantine as a precautionary measure.
This procedure, which scientists ultimately deemed unnecessary when the moon proved to be barren of life, was dropped after the Apollo 14 mission two years later.

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