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Apollo 11 moon landing: astronauts were neglected by Nasa

The Apollo 11 astronauts were not given the support needed to readjust to life on Earth after returning from the first manned voyage to the Moon, Nasa has admitted.

The agency exhaustively screened Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins for emotional stability before clearing them for the Apollo 11 flight, but did not continue to monitor them after they returned, according to a report in Time magazine.

Dr. J D Polk, NASA's current chief of medical operations, told Time that the three men and their families should have been offered psychological help after the mission ended on July 24 1969.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step from the Eagle landing module and onto the lunar surface on July 20 1969, was the first to show the psychological strain of space travel after the astronauts returned.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)