"That´s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". With those words, U.S astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon on this day in 1969. Armstrong uttered that immortal phrase as he stepped down from the lunar landing module Eagel at 10:56 p.m EDT on July 20. Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins had travelled240,000 miles, blasting off from Cape Kennedy in Florida on July16. The lunar landing was the culmination of President John F. Kennedy´s dream to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. The landing was also the end of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. There would be five more succesful manned missions to the moon.

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