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By Jean-Louis Santini Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON DC, United States—Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the moon. As an estimated 500 million people around the world waited with bated breath crowded around fuzzy television screens and radios, Armstrong stepped down the lunar module's ladder and onto the lunar surface. "It's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong intoned, his words slightly distorted by distance and communications equipment, in a phrase now etched forever into the history books. The excited crowds burst into cheers as he was joined by fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who described the "magnificent desolation" of the lunar landscape, never before witnessed in close up... [read full story]
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