The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the time this decade is out". In other words by the end of the 1960s. Many consider the landing one of the defining moments of the 20th century.
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At 2:56 UTC on July 21, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" exactly six and a half hours after landing.[1] Aldrin joined him, saying, "Beautiful. Beautiful. Magnificent desolation." Then for two-and-a-half hours, they took notes, photographed what they saw, and drilled core samples.
This is another photo I found on the NASA website. There is a noticeable height difference between the two astronauts. I do not believe it is because the ground is sloped. Rather, I believe the height difference is because that was me, when I was a 10 years old boy, standing there next to Neil Armstrong. If my artificial and symbolic memories are correct, then I went out the lunar module first and then set up the camera to record Neil Armstrong taking the first step of a man on the surface of the Earth’s moon. So technically, it was the first time a man had stepped onto the Moon surface, although a boy had walked first on the Moon surface on 7/21/1969. I also read those those first words from Armstrong on the surface and I think that he describing my first step on the Moon, which was a pretty short step for someone that everyone thought was a man, while I was actually stepping with the short legs of a 10-year-old.
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Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (in center) commander; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. (on right), lunar module pilot, are seen standing near their Lunar Module in this black and white reproduction taken from a telecast by the Apollo 11 lunar surface television camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. This picture was made from a televised image received at the Deep Space Network tracking station at Goldstone, California. President Richard M. Nixon had just spoken to the two astronauts by radio and Aldrin, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, is saluting the president.
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Composite of four artist's concepts illustrating the lunar surface activities of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Depicted here are commander on the moon, contingency sample, documented sample collection and sample collecting.
There is also in all this, the reason the Microsoft-Corbis paparazzi-terrorists, and their accomplices have been trying to hijack my identity. Since my role was not part of the public record, there was the danger they could steal it from me.
