Remembering Apollo 11, 40 Years Ago
by A discussion of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing.
“That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for man kind.”
[Neil Armstrong July 20th 1969 AD]
This sentence was spoken by Armstrong as he stepped off the Lunar Module on to lunar surface. They are first word spoken by a human being while standing on the surface of a planetary body other than Earth.
Now we are just days from the 40th anniversary of this event (July 20th 2009 AD) and what is sad is has been almost 37 years since anyone else has been back to the Moon. I remember watching this fist landing as well as Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the Moon and I am at 45 the youngest person I know that remembers it first hand. The bright spot is that for the first time in all these year there are finally real plans for returning to the Moon.
The Apollo 11 was a momentous event in history, in many ways it was the most memorable event of to 20th century. Let us remember it with pride.
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