Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

Old Cricket Says

on July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon. They were aboard Apollo 11’s lunar module a small spacecraft with soda-can thin aluminum walls designed by descended toward the moon’s surface, an alarm flashed. The onboard computer had overloaded with data.

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