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When US diplomat delivered Kenyan flag, a rock from the moon

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed US flag on July 20, 1969 during Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface area called the Sea of Tranquility. PHOTO | HO | NASA | AFP

By  Kamau Ngotho

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At about 3am (American time) 50 years ago on July 21, Neil Armstrong disembarked from the spacecraft Apollo 11 Eagle to step on the moon surface.

He made history as the first human being to do so. Nineteen minutes later, his colleague in the lunar flight, Buzz Aldrin, joined him.

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