Unforgettable ; Anyone Who Was Watching Still Remembers July 20, 1969

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"I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM (Lunar Module) footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine-grained as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. It's very fine. I'm going to step off the LM now. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

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Unforgettable ; Anyone Who Was Watching Still Remembers July 20, 1969

Those words, uttered 40 years ago today by astronaut Neil Armstrong, were beamed from the moon, across 240,000 miles, and into the homes of an estimated 500 million people worldwide.

The landing by Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin (Michael Collins remained...

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