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Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

July 20, 1969: The Eagle Has Landed

July 20, 1969 marks the greatest day in human history. On that day, a lone figure descended a small ladder and stepped onto a world never before touched by a human being. That man was Neil Armstrong. The world he touched was the Moon. For eons, since they could bend their necks and wonder at the lights that shined …

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Where No Man Had Gone Before: July 20, 1969.

Where No Man Had Gone Before

On July 20, 1969, the most significant triumph of mankind — a triumph of thought, will, determination, and execution — occurred. On this day, over forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin alit on the Moon. That object that illuminated our nights and our myths for millennia was finally being touched and explored …

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