At
the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Apollo, Pennsylvania was the only
place in the world named Apollo.
Coincidentally,
Apollo is in Armstrong County, and the name of the first astronaut to walk on
the moon was Neil Armstrong.
But
wait; it gets better.
On
the day of the moon landing, members of the Apollo fire department dressed as
astronauts and drove to nearby Moon Township, Pennsylvania, where they
planted a flag and returned with some “Moon Soil”.
And,
by the way, Apollo, PA is a palindrome (reads the same forward and backward).
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