Historic Apollo 11 Mission 50 years ago was the role of the local man in the mission that first men were placed on the moon, exactly 50 years ago this date began.
And a local person played a small role in the history that was making achievements.
The rocket for Apollo 11 was blown away from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.
Four days later, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person on the moon.
Jerry Dunn was a naval corpsman at that time, on the USS Hornet, the ship was assigned to recover the space capsule from the Pacific Ocean.
They still have a coffee mug and jacket patch from Apollo 11.
And he shot eight-millimeter movie capsules on the ship.
And he remembers waving three astronauts who were just 20 feet away.
Dunn said, "When this is happening, you are just doing your job, you are not thinking about it, but as the year progresses and people talk about it, you know. That I have become part of it, you are now. "
Dunn also helped to cure Apollo 12 astronauts.