July 20 1969 the first man on the moon
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 9:55 pm
July 20 1969: In July 20 1969 NASA’s Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the lunar surface, realizing humanity’s age-old dream. And effectively winning the space race for the United States.
Apollo 11 :-
Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin left the Apollo 11 command module in orbit and performed a landing in the lunar module Eagle. At 4:18 p.m. EDT, Armstrong announced to a watching and waiting world that “The Eagle has landed.” Six-and-a-half hours later, he stepped onto the powdery surface with the words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Aldrin soon followed Armstrong down the ladder to become the second man to stand on the moon.
Five more Apollo missions carried astronauts to the moon before the program ended in 1972. (There were to have been six, but Apollo 13′s mission ended in near disaster.) The last man to leave his footprint on the moon was Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan, on Dec. 14, 1972.
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