Landing on the moon.

• Position: JULY 20, 1969 - Brief article

On Sunday, July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. Eastern Daylight Timer American astronaut Neil Armstrong emerged from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. "That's one small step for [a] man," he said, "one giant leap for mankind." An estimated 600 million people, glued to TV sets all over the world, saw an almost unimaginable sight: A human being was walking on the moon.

After eight years of...