In the 43 years ago, the U.S. has scored a new history. They managed to land astronauts on the Moon.
According to The History Channel, is 240,000 miles (386 200 km) from Earth, space vehicles Eagle finally touched the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969 at 22:56 U.S. Eastern Time. These three astronauts in a historic mission that was Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Armstrong is the first astronauts who landed on the Moon. "This man is a small step a giant leap for all mankind," so the first expression of Armstrong, whose voice was broadcast by the U.S. government through radio broadcasts. Their mission was also recorded visually.
Human missions to the Moon has been initiated at the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressed a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961. "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal before this decade is out, that landing a man on the moon and back home safely to Earth," says Kennedy.
This is an ambitious plan of the U.S., who was competing with the Soviet Union in space mission. Moreover, the Soviets in the early 1960s has been proud to send kosmonotnya into space.
Need more than eight years for the U.S. to realize the ambitions of Kennedy's. That the trio met Armstrong-Aldrin-Collins while sliding the Apollo 11 rocket from Earth on July 16, 1969. Four days later they proved it. On July 24, 1969, three astronauts returned to Earth safely.
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