Month in History ( JULY )

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Neil Armstrong is the First Man on the Moon

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon and took their first steps on the lunar surface. Half a billion people around the world watched live television images that recorded the event. The landing was, without a doubt, one of the most significant achievements of modern civilization.

It is made even more remarkable by the fact that no human being had ever been in space prior to 1961. To go from "no human being in space" to "walking on the moon" in just 8 years is startling. It happened because of a very intense learning process.