On July 20, 1969, the human
race accomplished its single
greatest technological
achievement of all time when a
human first set foot on
another celestial body. Six
hours after landing at 4:17
p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(with less than 30 seconds of
fuel remaining), Neil A.
Armstrong took the “Small
Step” into our gre
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On July 20, 1969, the human
race accomplished its single
greatest technological
achievement of all time when a
human first set foot on
another celestial body. Six
hours after landing at 4:17
p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(with less than 30 seconds of
fuel remaining), Neil A.
Armstrong took the “Small
Step” into our greater
future when he stepped off the
Lunar Module, named
“Eagle,” onto the
surface of the Moon, from
which he could look up and see
Earth in the heavens as no one
had done before him. He was
shortly joined by
“Buzz” Aldrin, and
the two astronauts spent 21
hours on the lunar surface and
returned 46 pounds of lunar
rocks. After their historic
walks on the Moon, they
successfully docked with the
Command Module
“Columbia,” in which
Michael Collins was patiently
orbiting the cold but no
longer lifeless Moon.

Watch it now, as you would
have seen it on July 16, 1969,
at 9:26 AM EDT. T-minus
00:5:59 and counting. The
live U.S. broadcast via
satellite of the lift-off of
Apollo 11.

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