landings

President Kennedy challenged Americans to land on the moon and explore other planets, and NASA’s Apollo program eventually succeeded in doing just that in 1969. Armstrong and Aldrin emerged from Eagle, their lunar module, onto the lunar surface, to take “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Their mission had been successful. […]

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic landing of Earth’s natural satellite on July 20, 1969 was a triumphant achievement for America at the end of an eventful decade that had seen both revolution and warfare. The astronauts embarked upon their 2-and-a-half hour moonwalk, where they conducted experiments, photographed their surroundings, and set up an American