🚀 From Québec to the Moon 🇨🇦🌕 In 1969, when Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, the world watched in awe. What few people knew is that a crucial part of that landing was engineered in Québec. A company based in Longueuil, Héroux Machine Parts (now Héroux-Devtek), manufactured key components of the lunar module’s landing gear — the legs that absorbed the impact and kept Eagle standing on the Moon. These parts had to perform flawlessly in extreme conditions, with no margin for error.

Stepping off the lunar module Eagle on #ThisDayInHistory in 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. | HISTORY

31K views · 374 reactions | To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull that was 1/6 that of Earth. Apollo's Moonshot | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook