Monday July 20 is the 46th Anniversary of the first lunar landing

On July 20, 1969, NASA launched the space rocket Saturn V, which had the Lunar Module spacecraft and astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins aboard.

President John F. Kennedy future the adventurous task that often he described as “landing an individual on the Moon and surrendering him without any problems to the Earth”.

Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon is the most important and significant achievement that science had made in the twentieth century. The images of the moon landing were broadcasted to at least 600 million people on Earth, despite some technical and weather difficulties.

When Aldrin followed Armstrong to step out of the lunar module, he could only mutter, “Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, a magnificent desolation”, upon seeing what was around the moon, according to New York Daily News. And on Sunday, July 20, 1969, at 4:17 EDT, Apollo became the first manned spacecraft to land on the Moon.

The line “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” made famous by Armstrong as he steps out of the Apollo 11 spacecraft still echoes as historic as it was then, until today. They got lunar soil samples, placed the U.S flag, the Early Apollo Scientific Experiment Package (EASEP), two drawings of the Earth (Western and Eastern Hemisphere), an inscription, and signatures of the astronauts and President Nixon.

We never be aware of, but 46 a long time ago, we usually had consumed the “one colossal rebound for mankind”, as plenty from Lance Armstrong. On July 24th they landed on the Pacific Ocean and completed the mission.

After their successful mission, the astronauts were put in quarantine for three weeks for the fear they may have brought back unknown pathogens from the Moon.