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Neil Armstrong discusses landing on the moon and describes his view from the color of the Earth to the topography of the moon. Armstrong was one of three astronauts to board the Apollo 11 spacecraft and he is the first man to walk on the moon on July 21, 1969. Speaking to the differences in depth perception on the moon, Armstrong notes: “The peculiar phenomenon is the closeness of the horizon due to the greater curvature of the moon than we have here on earth, of course four times greater. And the fact that it is an irregular surface with crater rims overlying other crater rims. You can’t see the real horizon, you are seeing hills that are somewhat closer to you.”

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Former astronauts discuss what it what like working with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Jim Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13 and Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, remember what it was like first meeting Neil. Their first person accounts involve recalling what Neil was like before he became famous and also what he was like when they all toured together in Iraq. Neil was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. He set his left boot on the surface of the moon at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969, then spoke the famous words: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He died on August 25, 2015.

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A woman discusses the achievements and death of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on moon. Her first person account reveals how his family wants Americans to honor Neil and addresses his heart surgery. Neil was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. He set his left boot on the surface of the moon at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969, then spoke the famous words "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He died at age 82 from a heart complication.

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Author: Ben Nussbaum

The Apollo 11 moon landing was truly a global event. An estimated 500 million people watched it live, or roughly 15 percent of the entire population of the planet.

In fact, as much as it stirred American pride, the moon landing was always meant for the rest of the world. The space race of the 1960s was explicitly a contest between the Soviets and the Americans. In part the goal was military dominance, as the exact potential for these new technologies was unknown. But even more important was the propaganda value of a victory.
The Soviets had launched the first satellite, Sputnik. They had put the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. As emerging countries debated whether to join forces with the communist USSR or the capitalist U.S.A., these Soviet accomplishments seemed to offer proof that it was the USSR – not the U.S.A. – that had the more advanced civilization.

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson in succession poured more and more money into NASA in an attempt to earn the U.S. its first clear victory in the space race. At its peak in 1966, NASA employed (directly or as contractors) around 400,000 people. The Apollo project is estimated to have cost, in total, about $160 billion in current dollars.

Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon. Reflected in his visor is Neil Armstrong. On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11’s Armstrong became the first human on the moon, with Aldrin following shortly after.

The Apollo 11 moon landing propaganda victory wasn’t relegated to sleepy schoolkids in the U.K. While China, North Korea, and North Vietnam didn’t allow coverage of the event, it was on the front page of Pravda in the Soviet Union. Across the developing world it was occasion for rapturous coverage. But perhaps most surprising was the response from the countries of Eastern Europe: In Bucharest the Romanian Communist party’s official newspaper proclaimed the landing “one of the most extraordinary deeds in the whole history of mankind.” In Prague it was hailed as “a historic victory for mankind.” In Belgrade a newspaper hoped that “this scientific feat … will be the immediate stimulus for activity to consolidate world peace and understanding.”

The demoralized Soviets, for their part, were so far behind that they gave up on manned moon missions, refocusing their efforts on orbiting space stations.

In total 12 men would walk on the moon as part of the Apollo missions. The last was Eugene Cernan on December 13, 1972.

More on the Apollo 11 mission on NASA’s site

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Astronaut Neil Armstrong answers the question, “What was the most spectacular sight on Apollo 11?” Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans on the moon on July 20, 1969.

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