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22. The Apollo 11 Quarantine Trailer: The Last Stop After the Moon

After astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned from their historic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, they didn’t immediately step back into the world. Instead, they were placed in an ordinary-looking silver Airstream trailer inside a NASA facility for three weeks—quarantined just in case they brought back any unknown lunar bacteria. This humble trailer was the final chapter of humanity’s first trip to another world, proving that even after making history, sometimes the most extraordinary journeys end in the most unexpected, everyday places.