Editing Apollo 11 (section)

=== Celebrations ===

[[File:Apollo 11 ticker tape parade 1.jpg|thumb|Ticker tape parade in New York City]]

On August 13, the three astronauts rode in [[ticker-tape parade]]s in their honor in New York and Chicago, with an estimated six million attendees.<ref name="LADinner">{{cite web |title=Richard Nixon: Remarks at a Dinner in Los Angeles Honoring the Apollo 11 Astronauts |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-dinner-los-angeles-honoring-the-apollo-11-astronauts |website=The American Presidency Project |access-date=October 24, 2017 |date=August 13, 1969 |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514120049/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-dinner-los-angeles-honoring-the-apollo-11-astronauts |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27531303/the_evening_sun/|title=President Offers Toast to 'Three Brave Men'|newspaper=The Evening Sun|date=August 14, 1969|page=1|location=Baltimore, Maryland|via=Newspapers.com|agency=Associated Press|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-date=April 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419103143/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27531303/the_evening_sun/|url-status=live}}</ref> On the same evening in Los Angeles there was an official [[state dinner]] to celebrate the flight, attended by members of Congress, 44 governors, [[Chief Justice of the United States]] [[Warren E. Burger]] and his predecessor, [[Earl Warren]], and ambassadors from 83 nations at the [[Century Plaza Hotel]]. Nixon and Agnew honored each astronaut with a presentation of the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref name="LADinner" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27531557/the_honolulu_advertiser/|title=Astronauts Awed by the Acclaim|newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser|location=Honolulu, Hawaii|page=1|date=August 14, 1969|last1=Smith|first1=Merriman|agency=UPI|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-date=April 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419103552/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27531557/the_honolulu_advertiser/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The three astronauts spoke before a [[joint session of the United States Congress|joint session of Congress]] on September 16, 1969. They presented two US flags, one to the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and the other to the [[United States Senate|Senate]], that they had carried with them to the surface of the Moon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35693 |title=The Apollo 11 Crew Members Appear Before a Joint Meeting of Congress |access-date=March 3, 2018 |publisher=United States House of Representatives |archive-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304231417/http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35693 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[flag of American Samoa]] on Apollo 11 is on display at the [[Jean P. Haydon Museum]] in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fodors.com/world/australia-and-the-pacific/american-samoa/things-to-do/sights/reviews/jean-p-haydon-museum-584573 |title=Jean P. Haydon Museum |publisher=Fodor's Travel |access-date=March 5, 2018 |archive-date=October 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023230753/http://www.fodors.com/world/australia-and-the-pacific/american-samoa/things-to-do/sights/reviews/jean-p-haydon-museum-584573 |url-status=live }}</ref>

This celebration began a 38-day world tour that brought the astronauts to 22 countries and included visits with many world leaders.<ref name="Apollo 11 Crew Starts World Tour">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27494178/the_logan_daily_news/|title=Apollo 11 Crew Starts World Tour|agency=Associated Press|date=September 29, 1969|page=1|location=Logan, Ohio|newspaper=Logan Daily News|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327161210/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27494178/the_logan_daily_news/|url-status=live}}</ref> The crew toured from September 29 to November 5.<ref name="Apollo 11 Crew Starts World Tour" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27529119/the_los_angeles_times/|title=Japan's Sato Gives Medals to Apollo Crew|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=November 5, 1969|page=20|location=Los Angeles, California|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327161140/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27529119/the_los_angeles_times/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27529322/the_sydney_morning_herald/|title=Australia Welcomes Apollo 11 Heroes|date=November 1, 1969|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=Sydney, New South Wales|page=1|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-date=January 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071612/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27529322/the_sydney_morning_herald/|url-status=live}}</ref> The world tour started in Mexico City and ended in Tokyo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Uri |first=John |date=November 5, 2019 |title=50 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Astronauts Return from Around the World Goodwill Tour |url=https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-11-astronauts-return-from-around-the-world-goodwill-tour/ |access-date=December 25, 2023 |website=NASA}}</ref> Stops on the tour in order were: [[Mexico City]], [[Bogotá|Bogota]], Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, [[Las Palmas]] in the [[Canary Islands]], Madrid, Paris, [[Amsterdam]], Brussels, [[Oslo]], [[Cologne]], Berlin, London, [[Rome]], Belgrade, [[Ankara]], [[Kinshasa]], [[Tehran]], [[Mumbai]], [[Dhaka]], [[Bangkok]], [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]], [[Sydney]], [[Guam]], [[Seoul]], Tokyo and [[Honolulu]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtW-GMUfcFcC |title=Astronautics and Aeronautics: Chronology of Science, Technology, and Policy |year=1970 |pages=312 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Many nations honored the first human [[Moon landing]] with special features in magazines or by issuing Apollo 11 commemorative postage stamps or coins.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lunarhall.org/missions/apollo/11.html |title=Lunar Missions: Apollo 11 |date=2008 |website=Lunar Hall of Fame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024222503/http://www.lunarhall.org/missions/apollo/11.html |archive-date=October 24, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 9, 2014}}</ref>