Celebrating Apollo 11's Return to Earth

Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin peer through the window of the mobile quarantine facility, where they were kept upon return to earth out of fear that they had picked up unknown pathogens while in space.
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Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin peer through the window of the mobile quarantine facility, where they were kept after returning to Earth out of fear that they had picked up unknown pathogens while in space.

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