Forty years ago man first walked on the moon

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 millionagnificent desolation" of the lunar landscape, never before witnessed in close up on Earth. Only 12 earthlings have walked on the surface of the moon, the Earth's lone mysterious statellite, which has fuelled our dreams and imaginations since the earliest humans walked the planet. And the last moonwalk was already more than a generation ago in 1972. But at the height of the Cold War, the Apollo program succeeded in proving America's dominance in the space race. Planting an American flag on the surface of the moon in 1969 scored major morale-boosting points over the Soviet Union. The Apollo program, which led to six succesful moon... [read full story]                    

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