page_title: John Hirasaki
hierarchical_section_title: John Hirasaki
caption_attribution_description: English: S69-45487.jpg - Landing and Recovery Division Systems Engineer John K. Hirasaki removing equipment and decontaminating of the interior of the Apollo 11 spacecraft inside the Lunar Receiving Lab. (crop)
context_page_description: John Hirasaki is an American mechanical engineer who worked for the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned mission to the Moon. In 1969 he – along with Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and William Carpentier – became one of the first five known humans to view lunar rocks inside Earth's atmosphere.
context_section_description: John Hirasaki (born 1941) is an American mechanical engineer who worked for the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned mission to the Moon. In 1969 he – along with Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and William Carpentier – became one of the first five known humans to view lunar rocks inside Earth's atmosphere.
caption: Hirasaki in 1969
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